Multimedia Systems and Applications - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0122277406 ISBN 13: 9780122277405

Publisher: Academic Press, 1995

Synopsis

The computer's ability to control different media sources simultaneously is only one aspect of today's communication revolution. For the first time in centuries, we have discovered a domain that challenges the way weorganize and interact with text, images and sound. It is available on low-cost personal computers, and accessible to virtually everyone.
Multimedia is developing at an incredible rate. Hardware and software products may have short lives, but new and imaginative multimedia packages appear with increasing regularity. Multimedia Systems and Applications brings together a collection ofinternational contributions on multimedia systems and applications and looks in more detail at some of the current issues in the research and development of multimedia and the applications which exploit it. Part I on Systems looks at technology, interfaces and techniques; Part II on Applications looks at simulation, education, publishing, and the future of multimedia.
This book will enable those new to the field to obtain a good grounding in the technology required, and the applications which can utilize it effectively. It will also be essential reading for graduates, researchers and professionals in computer graphics, human-computer interaction and multimedia.

Offers a thorough introduction to the field
Provides coverage of both systems and applications
Contains 8 pages of color plates
Includes a CD-ROM

About this title

About the Author

Rae Earnshaw is Head of the Electronic Imaging and Media Communications unit at the University of Bradford, with interests in graphics algorithms, scientific visualization, graphics standards, workstations and display technology, multimedia, CAD/CAM, graphics systems building, education issues and human-computer interface issues. He has been a Visiting Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, NorthwesternPolytechnical University, China, and George Washington University, Washington DC. He was a Director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Graphics and CAD held in Italy in 1987. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, CGS,EG, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. Earnshaw has authored and edited 18 books on graphics algorithms, computer graphics, visualization, and associated topics, and published a number of papers in these areas. Professor Earnshaw is a member ofthe Editorial Board of The Visual Computer, Vice-President of the Computer Graphics Society, and Chair of the British Computer Society Computer Graphics and Displays Group.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0122277406
• ISBN 13: 9780122277405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264