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| ____ are pipelines through which the data travels, either physical or made of energy. |
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| A measurement of how much data can pass through a line medium in a certain time frame. |
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| ____ is the frequency range between the highest and lowest frequency passed through a component or circuit. |
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| A ____ is made up of 4 to 3,000 pairs twisted together in one cable. |
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| ____ can be used with frequencies of up to 10,000 MHz, and transmits at a rate of 10Mbps. |
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| There are several types of signals that are transmitted by ____ systems, ranging from 6 Mhz bandwidth for TV programs to 43 Mbps for digital data. |
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| ____ systems use large antennas to transmit a signal from repeater station to repeater station on the ground. |
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| ____ cabling is relatively inexpensive in comparison to metallic cables of the same capacity. |
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| A ____ uses hardware and protocols designed to communicate with computers that are typically in the same building or same general vicinity. |
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| A ____ typically uses telephone lines and satellites as a medium of communication. Networks can talk to other networks with the right communications setup. |
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| This is an example of a network to which the public can subscribe. |
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| VPN (virtual private network) |
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| Using a public network for secure information exchange between private computers is called a ____. |
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| In 1991, the first truly user-friendly interface for the Internet, called ____, was developed at the University of Minnesota. |
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| To make the nets even easier to use, a new protocol was proposed for information distribution; this protocol became ____. |
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| ____ was the first national commercial online service to offer Internet access to its subscribers, opening an email connection in July 1992, and full Internet service in November 1992. |
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| In this LAN configuration, all of the devices are connected to a central line medium, known as the backbone. |
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| In this LAN configuration, all of the devices are connected to one another, forming the shape of a circle. Each device is connected directly to two other devices, one on each side of it. |
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| In this LAN configuration, all of the devices are connected to a central hub, which acts as a traffic cop for all the data transmitted through the network. |
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| In this LAN configuration, groups of devices are arranged in star topologies but each group is connected to a backbone line medium. |
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| This LAN system allows multiple communication signals to travel through one channel by using packets of data that have destination addresses, and redundant check bits to detect transmission errors. |
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| FDDI (Fiber Distribuited Data Interface) |
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| This LAN interface allows local area networks to be transmitted at rates of up to 100 Mbps. This protocol can only be used with fiber-optic cable. |
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| ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) |
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| From one ____ phone line, you can take a phone call and transmit data from your computer at the same time. |
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| A ____ provides 24 channels at 64 Kbps, totaling a rate of 1.563 Mbps with an additional 8 Kbps used as framing information. |
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| A ____ connection has a total of 672 individual channels, each of which supports 64 Kbps data transfers. |
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| DSL (digital subscriber line) |
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| There are two basic types of this line medium, a symmetric and an asymmetric, both of which utilize a high-frequency part of the bandwidth on regular phone lines. |
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| This connection supplies us with a much wider bandwidth than regular phone lines, with speeds up to 2 Mbps. |
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| ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) |
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| ____ is designed to handle voice, video and data in WANs at rates of up to 2,488 Mbps (2.488 Gbps). |
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| By 1970, Bell Labs had created the computer code called ____, which was written for the new operating system at the time, which was called UNIX. |
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| Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs, working on a compiler that could generate executable code, ushered in this modern code that we use today. |
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| ____ is text-based, and is embedded in browsers for the Internet. It can't run on its own; it has to be run within another program. |
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| A ____ is fixed at a particular resolution, making them difficult to resize without distortion. |
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| An ____ is a mathematical equation that can be resized and manipulated with the click of a mouse. |
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| Codec (compressor-decompressor) |
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| A ____ can be a hardware device, like used in ISDN connections, or the software used to compress video for streaming across the Internet. |
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| TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) |
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| The ____ file format, commonly used in the printing industry, has variations that include black-and-white, gray scale, and color. |
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| EPS (Encapsulated Post Script) |
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| ____ was designed for printing purposes, and is an object-oriented file format. |
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| GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) |
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| The ____ contains data compression for bitmaps that uses only 256 colors, which allows them to be smaller files and ideal for surfing the web. |
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| JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) |
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| ____ is often thought of as a file format, but really is a set of standards for compression for bitmapped images. |
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| PNG (Portable Network Graphic) |
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| ____ was created to allow for a free and improved version of the GIF format. |
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| The ____ format is the standard bitmapped graphics format for Microsoft Windows computers, and doesn't utilize any compression. |
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| ASF (Advanced Streaming Format) |
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| ____ was created by Microsoft, and is used to save synchronized audio and/or video for distribution over networks or for use on a local computer. |
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| WMA (Windows Media Audio) |
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| ____ is just one of several of Microsoft's streaming formats, but these files contain audio only. |
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| WMV (Windows Media Video) |
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| ____ is another of Microsoft's streaming formats, which can contain video in addition to audio. |
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| AVI (Audio Video Interleave) |
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| ____, a common file used in Microsoft Windows in regards to video files, can use different codecs, so the user must have the proper codec to view the file. |
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| ____ is a video compression that is used to reduce the video file to 1/140th of its original size. |
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| ____ is used for audio compression, and is commonly found on the Web. |
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| ____ is able to store high-quality video without taking the massive amount of space the original uncompressed video takes. The compression does this by removing redundancies within the motion picture. |
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| MPEG 4 (ex. DivX, interactive media) |
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| ____ was built upon previous file formats, and also provided more standards for multimedia applications and better audio-video compression. |
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| ____ was created by Apple computer as their format for computer-based video. |
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| ____ was created by Real Networks for streaming video via the Internet. |
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| ____ is very popular with animated web sites and presentations, as it allows for audio, video, animation, and interactivity. |
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| ____ is the sound file format created by Microsoft and IBM, and has become the standard sound format for Windows computers. |
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| AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) |
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| ____ is the sound file format created by Apple Computer, and is the standard for their machines. |
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| MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) |
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| ____ files are records of events, or triggers, which tell the computer's sound card to play a certain sound at a given time. |
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| CD-DA (Compact Disc - Digital Audio) |
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| The official designation for the audio-only format of the compact disc is the ____. |
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| The original standard CD formats held ____ MB of data; today, they can hold as much as ____ MB. |
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| This format has become increasingly popular with musical artists. The artists are able to include song lyrics, videos, screen savers, and Web links on a CD that plays audio in a standard audio CD player. |
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| The ____ was a television-based player, much like the laser disc players. |
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| ____ units, which use a WORM (Write Once Read Many) format, are very useful in a digital media production environment. |
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| The ____ system gives the opportunity to write, erase, overwrite, and read CD info. |
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| A ____ can hold up to 5.2 GB of data, as opposed to 650 MB or 700 MB for CD-ROMs. |
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| ____ is the DVD standard for the video entertainment industry. |
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| ____ supports the storage of various high-resolution digital audio formats, including DTS or Dolby surround. |
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| ____ is WORM format used to store data. |
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| ____ allows for re-recording of data over existing data on the DVD-based disc. |
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| ____ is a subset of RT3D that provides an immersive experience in which the user can participate. |
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| Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) |
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| ____ are helmet-like devices with a small computer monitor for each eye. |
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| ____ are planar, closed, multi-sided figures. |
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| ____ have different reflective properties that we can use to give a realistic appearance to the object in regards to lighting. |
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| ____ are 2D images placed on the surface of a model to give it color and its "look." (general name) |
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| ____ are 2D images that create the look of real texture on the model. |
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| photo-like skin onto a model, color and look |
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| 6DOF (Six Degrees of Freedom) |
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| The ____ are a combination of coordinates, usually expressed in dimensions of X,Y,Z (position) and Roll,Pitch,Yaw (orientation). |
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| 2D curves rotated on an axis to create a 3D "curve" model |
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| devices used to determine the direction in which a user is looking |
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| a glove with sensors that allows a user to "touch" items in a virtual environment |
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| a glove wired with sensors and connected to a computer system for gesture recognition |
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| A feeling of immersion seems to arise with FOV greater than _____. |
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| Minimum frame rate for fluid motion |
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| Minimum frame rate to be considered RT3D |
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| Material Maps, Image Maps, Bump Maps |
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| Intraframe (entire frame), Predicted Frame (changed pixels only), Bi-Directional Frame (average of before and after) |
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| 3 types of frames recorded in an MPEG file |
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| a mask or filter applied to an image that allows the user to add effects to an image |
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| process of coverting 3D model to a 2D image |
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| graphical placement of files is done in the _____ stage |
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| test copy (burn) of the digital media project |
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| the final digital media project is done in the ____ stage |
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| Maximum storage space for a dual-layer/dual-sided DVD |
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| These lay out the frame for the 3D model |
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| 3 steps of design in digital media |
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| Types of Object Oriented Graphics |
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| Other name for Object Oriented Graphics |
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| Other name for Bitmapped Graphics |
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| allows for synchronizing elements of a multimedia project w/o knowing code |
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| Term meaning how computers are networked together |
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- 10 Base-T: throughput 10 Mbps
- 100 Base-T: throughput 100 Mbps
Gigabit Ethernet: throughput 1 Gbps |
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| 3 types of ethernet connections are... |
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| the ability of the user to control the tempo and outcome of a multimedia experience |
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| Year that gov't funded ARPANET was started |
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| Year that HTTP was introduced |
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| Year that NSF ends sponsorship of Internet and commercial usage of internet begins (start of .com) |
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