The Starting Of Our IST Journey

This Year i chose the subject IST to study about. As a teacher i got Mr. Lennon. Today is our second lesson and Sir gave us some words that will be related to our first assignment. Which is apparently Animations. Here are the Words and here are their definitons:


Animated Gif :
A small animation based on successively displayed GIF images.
JPEG:
A file format commonly used for image compression; An image file in that format Also represents  Joint Photographic Expert Group.
Pixel:
the smallest discrete component of an image or picture.
BMP:
The BMP file format, sometimes called bitmap, is an image file format used to store bitmap digital images, especially on Microsoft Windows.
FLIP:
To flip the image so its facing another direction.
VIDEO CARD:
A piece of hardware installed into a personal computer to allow it to send video signals to an external output device such as a monitor or projector.
CROP:
Cutting some parts of an image to make it shorter.
MIRROR:
Meaning the mirror image. The reflection of the picture.
FPS (FRAMES PER SECOND):
The amount of still frames that are displayed during one second of video.
FRAME:
a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
MORPH:
cause to change shape in a computer animation
CPU:
central processing unit: (computer science) the part of a computer
DPI:
the number of pixels across one inch of most monitors.
RESOLUTION:
the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display
FILE EXTENSION:
A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the file format.
COMPRESSION:
Compressing the resolution of the image and pixels per square inch
FRAME BUFFER:
A framebuffer is a video output device that drives a video display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of data.
COLOUR DEPTH:Color depth or bit depth, is a computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer.




At the moment i really only have a little understanding of what our topic is about. But tomorrow is IST again so Sir will tell us more.



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