Examples for Chapter 2
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p. 21, Analogue and Digital Clocks
The desktop clock applications illustrated in the book are rather crude and unattractive. We got these much nicer Flash ones from localtime.info. They work, too, illustrating analogue vs digital better than the book's static screenshots.
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p. 28, Moiré Patterns
This is the original Illustrator file of Figure 2.10. If you open it you will be able to see that it is made up entirely of straight lines and the patterns are an artefact.
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p. 29, Posterization
This is a 24-bit colour version of the photograph shown in Figure 2.12. Experiment with reducing the number of colours and observe the posterization.
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p. 34, Pixels
Blow up this file until you can see its individual pixels, as in Figure 2.15.
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pp. 38–39, Vectors and Bitmaps
You can use this high-resolution photograph to experiment with applying filters.
Download Photoshop file DMM3e-2-18.psd [2.1MB]
You can find the vector drawing also shown in Figure 2.18 at the Digital Media Tools support site.
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p. 41, Video
See how the dull and entirely static images shown in Figure 2.21 turn into the lively movement of splashing water on a long-ago summer's evening. -
p. 42, Animation
"Animate" means "bring to life". The animation is made up of 30 individual drawings, some of which are shown in Figure 2.22. Each one is just a still image, but when you click on the cannon...