CHAPTER 24

MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE

Early computers were monsters. Scientists worked with them only through monochrome terminals. Things have changed slowly and silently for many years. Now computers are not restricted to black and white text. Computers have now multimedia ability. They can handle fonts, images (graphics), and sound too. Modern applications are now expected to give users a complete multimedia experience.

Let us start our study with images.

24.1 Images

In this section, we will see simple programs with images. Let us start with the simple introduction.

24.1.1 Introducing image

These days we have lot of images stored in our computer. Images are stored in different formats (using specific extensions). The images we are discussing here ...

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