COMPUTER GRAPHICS & MULTIMEDIA

Raster scan displays, Storage tube displays, Refreshing, Flickring, Interlacing, Colour monitors, Display processors resolution, Working principle of dot matrix, Inkjet laser printers, Working principles of keyboard, Mouse scanner, Digitizing camera, Track ball, Tablets and joysticks, Graphical input techniques, Positioning techniques, Rubber band techniques, Dragging etc. Scan conversion techniques, Image representation, Line drawing, Simple DDA, Bresenhams algorithm, Circle drawing, General method, Symmetric DDA, Bresenhams algorithm, Curves, Parametric function, Beizier method, B-spline method. 2D and 3D co-ordinate system, Translation, Rotation, Scaling, Reflection inverse transformation, Composite transformation, World co-ordinate system, Screen co-ordinate system, Parallel and perspective projection, Representation of 3D object on 2D screen. Point clipping. Line clipping algorithms, Polygon clipping algorithms, Introduction to hidden surface elimination, Basic illumination model, Diffuse reflection, Specular reflection, Phong shading, Gourand shading ray tracing, Colour models like RGB, YIQ, CMY, HSV etc. An introduction - Multimedia applications - Multimedia system architecture - Evolving technologies for multimedia - Defining objects for multimedia systems - Multimedia data interface standards - Multimedia databases. Multimedia components, Multimedia hardware, SCSI, IDE, MCI, Multimedia-Tools, Presentation tools, Authoring tools. Compression and decompression - Multimedia data and file format standards - TIFF, MIDI, JPEG, DIB, MPEG, RTF - Multimedia I/O technologies - Digital voice and audio - Video image and animation - Full motion video - Storage and retrieval technologies.