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Computer Multimedia
Computers have come a long way very fast since there start in the 1940's. In
the beginning they were mainly used for keeping financial records by banks and
insurance companies, and for mathematical computations by engineers and the U.S.
Military.
However, exciting new applications have developed rapidly in the last few years.
Two of these areas is Computer Graphics and sound.
Computer graphics is the ability of ....
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.... can be described
digitally and stored as an image (wave format) of the actual sound or it can be
translated in to what is called midi format. This is chiefly for music. In a
piano, for instance, the information for what key to hit, for how long ad at
what intensity is stored and retrieved. This is kind of like the way and old
player piano worked.
Computer graphic applications in the beginning were developed on large computes.
The computer hardware and software were developed by individua ....
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