Computer Science CS50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Vector Graphics, Digital Video, Hypertext
Document Summary
Television, radio, newspaper are common examples of mass media. Multimedia is a combination of more than one media text, graphics, images, audio, or video, which is used for presenting and sharing the information. Multimedia is delivered through the computer and introduces the element of interactivity. Text, graphics, video, audio, and animation are the different elements of multimedia. Integrated, digital, interactive and computers are the four main characteristics of a multimedia system. Computers are an intrinsic part of multimedia system. Multimedia is digital since it uses the computer. The elements of the multimedia are integrated to present a single interface to the user. Text is used for writing titles, to define menus, to write the content, and to navigate. Text in multimedia has features like text font, text effect, and text color. Text can be represented as hypertext on the internet. The documents linked via hyperlinks allow non-linear access.