Thursday, September 30, 2010

Activity 5

- Site 1 uses interactivity in a unique way by having different articles in a box form and when you open it the whole site is shown in a creative way.
- Site 2 uses interactivity in a unique way because since the website is about eyes when u first click on the site there is an eye and different color lines moving around and once it gets to the main page when you go to click something different things move and change color so it shows they have a unique way of doing there website
- SIte 3 uses interactivity in a unique way because it has a pattern of small images that become larger and change its color on the side of the page it also then has a side of different lines and bright and dark colors put against each other.
- Site 4 uses interactivity because once you open into the webpage you see a booklet with writing in it and different slots where you get to choose what you want to see and read. so that makes it unique from any of the other 3 sites.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Activity 4

- .aiff is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices
- animated GIF is a single graphic file that contains a series of images which are displayed sequentially to give the illusion of movement or change over time.
- bitmap is an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels
- bmp is an image file format used to store bitmap digital images
- bps is the rate at which data is transferred
- browser a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular and a program used to view HTML documents
- byte is a sequence of bits that a computer processes in individual units
- cache is is a component that improves performance by transparently storing data such that future requests for that data can be served faster
- cookie is a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
- Dpi is an abbreviation for dots per inch, a measure of the resolution of graphic displays.
- Ethernet is a standard for sending data packets across networks
- extension is a software extension is a computer program designed to be incorporated into another piece of software in order to enhance
- firewall is is a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications
- firewire is a standard for transmission of digital data between external peripherals, including consumer audio and video devices
- gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage
- gigahertz is a unit of frequency equal to one billion cycles per second.
- html is a computer programming language that allows people to create links on the world wide web from one source of information to another in any order.
- hyperlink is a link from a hypertext file to another location or file
- intranet is a private computer network that uses the protocols of the Internet
- javascript is A scripting language that works with HTML to enhance web pages and make them more interactive.
- JPEG is is a commonly used method of lossy compression for photographic images
- Kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage or transmission
- megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage or transmission with two different values depending on context
-MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding format and is compatible with most personal music players
- operating system is the programming that makes your computer run its most basic functions.
- pixel is a single point in a raster image
- URL is the address of a web page on the world wide web
- wireless is transmission by radio waves

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Activity 3

-In Picture one the elements of design that it has is color and shape and the principal of design is that it has a lot of variety. There is a lot of different colors put into the picture as well as the different shapes and a variety of different ways the artist use the colors and shapes to make the painting.

-In Picture two shows the elements of line and form and the principal design of harmony and rhythm because the picture is made up of lines only that they are formed in different ways and going different directions

- In Picture Three it shows the elements of line, shape, and color because the painting has a variety of different shapes and lines used to make the face of the painting the principal design that the picture shows is contrast because the picture was made with a dark background and the main part was used with bright colors so it brings out the painting more.

-In Picture 4 the elements of design are line, shape, and color the pictures shows lines used in different forms as well as the shapes and an amount of 3/4 different colors. some of the principal of designs are balance because in the picture it shows symmetry another principal design is contrast, rhythm and pattern. because the picture has light up against on dark and the elements vary in direction.

-In Picture 5 the elements of design are line, shape, texture, and space the picture shows a variety of different lines making up the shape and each square shape has spaces in between one another. some of the principal of designs are contrast and harmony because the elements are similar in the size of there shape and there shade

- In Picture 6 the elements of design it has is space which is between the man and the item he is holding and the principal designs that the picture has is contrast and emphasis which is focused more on the man and what he's looking at.


-Absract Expressionism is A painting style in which the process is largely uncontrolled, accidental, sometimes unthinking, automatic and direct. The painting becomes a record of the artist's intense experience with paint and color
-Cubism is an artistic movement that has surfaces of geometrical planes

Friday, September 17, 2010

Activity 2

1. What Principle of Design applies to the Web Art?
-in Web Art 1, its an icon animated for mountain dew and the principle designs it shows and applies to are movement and contrast because they have light elements and dark elements opposing each other.
-in Web Art 2, the principle of design that applies to the web art are emphasis and rhythm because the artist directs our eyes to one part and the same elements vary in size.
-In Web Art 3, the principal of design shows a variety of things different writings are in each different circle.
-in Web Art 4, the principal design is movement, contrast, and a lot of variety
-In Web Art 5, the principal design is contrast and movement while having different things move into place the colors are contrasting each other having a dark background up against bright colors.
-In Web Art 6, the principal design is movment and contrast because the painting is hitting up against a dark background which brings out even more the lighter colors
-In Web Art 7 the principal design is variety the picture shows different types of elements in different shape and size.
-In Web Art 8, the principal design is empahsis because it makes people look at just one part of the compostion.

2. What is unique about this particular Web page?
All these web pages are all unique all of the different web art have a different principle design to them there all different in shape size and color. some of them have movment or a variety in there color shape or how much is put into it.

3. What is the purpose of the Web page?
the purpose of That Web Page is to show people the different ways you can do art weather it has different shapes or sizes, a balance were the art woudld be symmetrical or the contrast of art were elements oppose to differently either lighter or darker. or wht the harmony orrythm it could have, or what it's empahsising

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Multimedia Design

1. What are the different ways line is used?
- The lines where used in many different ways the artist used thick, thin, straight, broken, and wavy lines.

2.Describe 6 different ways line expresses emotion?
- the six different ways that express emotion are Calligraphy, Maps, Horizontal, Vertical lines, Floor Plans, and Graphs

3. What are factors affect our peception of shape and form?
- Viewpoint and the Space around the object are factors that affect our peception of shape and form 

4. What kind of shapes change two dimensional space?
- Organic and Geometric change to two dimensional space

5. Look at the work of M.C.Escher how does he manipulate positive and negative space?
-The artist used the  reversal of positive and Negative space to create his illusion, he also used interlocking images that confuse us with what is foreground and what is background

6. What are the tools of creating the illusion of three dimensional space?
-three dimensional shapes have depth,  width and height 

7. Describe the following type of movement: Implied, Compositional, Dynamic
-compositional movement is how the people view the composition and how it grabs here attention
-Dynamic movement is how the eye flows smoothly form one area to the other of the composition
-implied movement is a fixed imagine and cannot literally move 

8. What is Hue and Value?
-Hue refers to the pure spectrum color
-Value is the relative lightness and darkness of a color

9. What is color proportions,  simultaneous contrast, optical mixture?
-Color proportions refers to the relative quantity of hue or value used in color compositions
-Simultaneous contrast is phenomenon which happens when a color appears to change when its against a different background
-Optical Mixture is the phenomenon which happens when small particles of different colors are mixed