Multi Media: The Complete Guide

by Anthony Whitehorn, Nicholas Negroponte, Joe Eliot

The complete guide to CD-Roms, the Internet, the World Wide Web, virtual reality, 3-D games, & the information superhighwayThis is a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the entire multimedia phenomenon. It contains over 1,000 images, which reveals how multimedia works, how it is used, and how it is made. The book examines the full range of multimedia applications - encyclopedias, interactive movies, in-flight entertainment, and so on - as well as the range of multimedia machines - computers, home consoles, and virtual reality equipment. The book reveals how much multimedia text, sound, graphics, animation, and video are created and how they are built into an interactive whole. At last it explores the world of on-line multimedia, the Internet, and interactive television - as it is today and as it it will be in the future.

192 pages, Hardcover

Published April 25, 1996

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[Belen De Bruijn · Rating 4 out of 5]

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