Exam 8: Digital Media

Vector graphics are created from scratch using vector graphics software, referred to as paint software.

____ is a DRM technology designed to encrypt and protect content on optical disks.

Case 2 Anita fancies herself to be an artist on the computer. She is drawing stylized images of the Parthenon with a series of roughly long and rectangular objects for the columns and a triangular object for the roof. These objects are layered according to the artist's specifications. For instance, the roof object is layered in front of the columns and sky. The characteristic of using this type of graphics gives a great deal of flexibility in arranging and editing image elements. Which of the following are Anita's graphics?

Enlarging a bitmap requires your computer to fill in missing pixels, which sometimes results in a "bitmappy" or palpitating image.

A vector graphic can quite easily be converted into a bitmap graphic through a process called ____.

____________________ works by superimposing a grid over a vector image and determining the color for each pixel.

What is a card reader?

Critical Thinking Questions (Multiple Choice) You have included a cartoon-like image of a computer in your flyer for your school's computer lab. What type of graphic is the image most likely?

If you have dialed Directory Assistance lately to obtain a telephone number, you have probably encountered ____.

Bitmaps generally require less storage space than vector images.

A(n) bitmap graphic file contains the instructions that the computer needs to create the shape, size, position, and color for each object in an image.

If you rasterize a vector image at a small size and then try to enlarge the resulting bitmap image, you will likely get a poor-quality pixelated image.

____ is a graphics format with built-in compression that stores True Color bitmap data very efficiently in a small file.

The ____ file format is one of the original personal computer bitmap graphics file formats.

Windows uses a(n) ____ palette that contains 20 permanent colors and 236 colors that can be changed, depending on the application.

As shown in the figure above, ____ prevents DVDs from being successfully duplicated by end-users using standard copy utilities.

Most cameras store photographic images in ____ or TIFF formats.