CSE/ISE 334 SYLLABUS

Week 1
Lecture: What is Multimedia?
Conduits of information: print, broadcast, internet
Vehicles of expression: text, graphics, animation, audio, video, 3D
Multimedia systems approach

Recitation: Examples of student multimedia projects.

Homework: Review course web site.
Lab work: Mac OS X tutorials.

Week 2
Lecture: Pictures
Image capture
Rasterizing
Graphics formats
Digital color and palettes
Graphics compression

Recitation: Image capture; masking and alpha channel; raster-to-vector conversion.

Homework: Chapter 3 and 5 of text.
Lab work: iPhoto tutorials; Photoshop tutorials; begin image exercise (practice capturing and manipulating images).

Week 3
Lecture: Text and Graphics
Vectors
Icons
Text formats, character sets, and fonts
Typography
Hypertext

Recitation: Text on a path; 2D extrusion to 3D; tessellation.

Homework: Chapters 4 & 10 of text.
Lab work: Illustrator tutorials; practice using vectors for masking.

Week 4
Lecture: The Design of Information
Aspect ratio and figure-ground relationships
Iconography
Design of statistical and schematic data
Cartography

Recitation: Hall of fame, and hall of shame.

Week 5
Lecture: The Nature of Information
Analog Events, Digital Recordings
Waveforms
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Color models
Frequency and Amplitude, Pitch and Volume, Color and Brightness
Transducers
Sampling rate, quantization

Homework: Chapter 6 of text.

Week 6
Lecture: The Biology and Psychology of Human Perception
Visible spectrum
Auditory range
Sensory bandwidth
Psychology of color
Pattern recognition

Recitation: Persistence of vision; afterimage; simultaneous contrast; auditory & visual memory; recognition and response benchmarks.

Homework: Take sensory perception on-line tests.

Week 7
Lecture: 3D
3D modeling
Motion capture
Texture mapping
3D formats
3D animation

Recitation: Spline and polygon mesh modeling; morphing; particle systems; kinematics.

Lab work: begin 3D assignment (practice modeling with B-splines and booleans).

Homework: Chapter 8 of text.

Week 8
Multimedia Hardware

Homework: Chapter 2 of text.
Lab work: Practice texture mapping & lighting; practice mesh modeling; create hierarchical model.

Week 9
Lecture: Video
Video capture
Analog video vs. digital video
Video formats and standards
Video compression

Recitation: Chroma and alpha channel video compositing; live video streaming; video morphing.

Homework: Chapter 7 of text.
Lab work: QuickTime tutorials; practice rendering.

Week 10
Lecture: Animation
Animation principles
Frame rate
Rotoscopy
Interpolation
Kinematics
Animation formats

Recitation: Frame-by-frame and interpolated animation; rotoscopy; morphing and spline-based animation.

Week 11
Lecture: Audio
Audio capture
Digital audio vs. MIDI
Audio formats
Audio compression

Recitation: Digital multitrack recording of live audio; transcription of audio to MIDI; speech synthesis.

Homework: Chapter 9 of text.
Lab work: Digital audio tutorials; begin audio exercise (practice sampling).

Week 12
The Internet

Homework: Chapter 13 of text.

Week 13
Lecture: Intellectual Property
Copyright
Visual Artist's Rights Act
Trade Secret
Trademark
Patent
Work for Hire

Week 14
Lecture: The Future of "New Media"
Immersive technology
Media convergence
Ubiquitous computing
Computer-supported collaborative work

Recitation: Multimodal interfaces; VR; stereography; synthetic actors.