10.Digital Media as Content

DOI: 10.4324/9780367824112-13

Projection design is often a balancing act between the artistic and the technical. Though there are certainly many ways in which analog processes can find their way into a design, it has become increasingly important for the projection designer to have a firm grasp on many areas of digital media technology in order to do their work. The following chapter addresses the fundamentals of working with digital media, the different types of content used in projection design, and various tools and processes for working with them.

10.1 Digital Media Fundamentals

Digital media refers to any type of media that exists in the form of digital data (stored and presented through the numeric encoding ...

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