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1st Six Weeks

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Animation---> Moving diagrams or cartoons that are made up of a sequence of images displayed one after the other. Animations are created for entertainment, ad banners as well as instructional sequences. The two most popular animation formats on the Web are animated GIFs and Flash.

Action Script---> A scripting language for Flash animations that is similar to JavaScript. Introduced in 2000 with Flash 5, which was the first Flash version to be fully programmable, ActionScript is based on ECMAScript.

Bandwidth---> The measure of the capacity of a circuit or channel. More specifically, bandwidth refers (1) to the total frequency range on the available carrier in Hertz (Hz) for the transmission of data, or (2) the capacity of a circuit in bits per second (bps). There is a direct relationship between the bandwidth of an analog circuit or channel and both its frequency and the difference between the minimum and maximum frequencies supported. Although the information signal (bandwidth usable for data transmission) does not occupy the total capacity of a circuit, it generally and ideally occupies most of it.The balance of the capacity of the circuit may be used for various signaling and control (overhead) purposes.

Controller---> An electronic circuit board or system. In a computer, controllers contain the circuitry to run a peripheral device and are either contained on a plug-in expansion board or on the motherboard. In larger computers, a controller may be contained on one or more boards or in an external, stand-alone cabinet. Compression> A means of reducing the amount of data to be transmitted or stored. Compression is possible since there always is some amount of data redundancy or there may be a predictable flow to the data. These characteristics of a set of data or a stream of data allow the use of a sort of mathematical algorithm to represent or describe the original data in fewer bits. A matching decompression process reverses the compression process and restores the data to its original form, or an approximation thereof. Compression serves to improve the efficiency of data transmission and storage, and is especially valuable if bandwidth and memory resources are limited.

Export> To save a copy of the current open document, database, image or video into a file format required by a different application. Applications may export to a variety of popular formats. The Save As command in a program gives you access to the export filters in a program.

Frame Rate---> In video communications, the rate at which frames of still images are transmitted.Video is a series of still images transmitted in succession to create the perception of fluidity of motion. Motion picture quality is considered to be a frame rate of 24 frames per second (fps) and broadcast television quality is considered to be 30 fps. If the frames are transmitted at a slow rate, the result is a poor quality, herkyjerky video that creates a strobe-light effect. Particularly below 15 fps, quality suffers noticeably, as the fluidity of motion is lost even though the image quality may be high.

Import---> To convert a file into the format required by the application being used. Applications are often capable of importing a variety of popular formats, converting them into the native format of the application. For example, CAD and drawing programs work on graphics objects in their native, proprietary format. In order to modify an illustration created in another application, it must be imported into the current application. After making changes, the drawing can then be saved in (exported to) its original format.

Interactivity---> The back-and-forth dialog between the user and the computer. Games are always interactive, and most computer applications are interactive. The user selects a task, and the computer carries it out. Then the user selects another. Where are your assignments?