Syllabus of Andhra University BTech Information Technology - IT 4.2.4 - Graphics & Multimedia Laboratory

Fourth year - Second Semester

Instruction: 3 Periods/week
Univ. Exam : 3 Hours

Sessional Marks: 50
Univ-Exam-Marks: 50

Graphics: using any graphic package.

1. Drawing various types of lines and curves.

2. Creating various types text and fonts.

3. Creating two dimensional objects using the lines and curves

4. Animating the two dimensional pictures using transformations.

5. Coloring the pictures and Zooming.

6. Creating an object and applying animation of key framing.

7. Creating three dimensional objects using wire frame modeling.

8. Rotation, scaling and translating the 3 D objects.

9. Coloring the 3 D objects.

10. Shading the 3 D objects

11. Rendering the objects

12. Creating smooth surfaces.

13. Creating rugged surfaces based on fractal geometry.

Multimedia:

1 Preproduction & Presentation Graphics: Create a 7-10 slide presentation in your favorite presentation graphics application. (Power point is suggested; Corel Presentations 9 is free and is acceptable.)

2. Typefaces and Graphics: Create 1 vector and 1 bitmap graphic; they must be your original work created in any of the acceptable tools.

3. Desktop Publishing: Create a 2-page desktop-published "newsletter," possibly using your "What is Multimedia?" text. Include graphics.

4. Production Planning and Design: Create a proposal of project. Include summary, flowchart, element and resource lists.

5. User Interface Design & Graphics II: Create a user interface for your final project. Include 2 backgrounds and 1 button set. Aim for a cohesive look.

6. Multimedia Sound: Create 2 soundtracks and 2 EFX sounds for a previous project.

7. Digital Video: Use video capture to digitize your video shoot ro another video source to create short production (15-45 seconds)

8. Create three basic Web pages using Dreamweaver / flash or other authoring package or write bare HTML if you are able; pages must be linked and must include at least one graphic per page.

Books:

1) Prabhat K. Andleigh & Kiran Thakrar, "Mulitmedia Systems Design", Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.

2) Calleen Coorough, "Multimedia and the Web Creating digital Excitement", Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi.

3) James E. Shuman, "Multimedia in Action", Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi.