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A course in multimedia is rapidly becoming a necessity in computer science ,

especially now that multimedia touches most aspects of these fields. Multimedia

was originally seen as a vertical application area; that is, a niche application

with methods that belong only to itself. However, like pervasive computing,

multimedia is now essentially a horizontal application area and forms an

important component of the study of computer graphics, image processing,

databases, real-time systems, operating systems, information retrieval, computer

networks, computer vision, and so on. Multimedia is no longer just a toy but

forms part of the technological environment in which we work and think. This

book fills the need for a College and university-level text that examines a good

deal of the core agenda computer science sees as belonging to this subject area.

Multimedia has become associated with a certain set of issues in computer

science and engineering, and we address those here. The book is not an

introduction to simple design issues—it serves a more advanced audience than

that. It is textbook specially designed for BCA Vth Semester Students .While

we perforce discuss multimedia tools, we would like to give a sense of the

underlying principles in the tasks those tools carry out. Students who undertake

and succeed in a course based on this text can be said to really understand

fundamental matters in regard to this material; hence the title of the text. In

conjunction with this text, a full-fledged course should also allow students to

make use of this knowledge to carry out interesting or even wonderful practical

projects in multimedia, interactive projects that engage and sometimes amuse

and, perhaps, even teach these same concepts.