Design Principles

Here are some great links to help understand design concepts:
John Lovett has a nice explanation with simple illustrations dealing with some key concepts here.
Wikipedia is a great place to start here.
*Digital web Magazine has some nice explanations here. really good examples here.

Design Principles: We want our compositions to have these qualities.

• Balance
• Proportion
• Rhythm
• Unity
• Dominance

Elements of design: We achieve the above principles using these elements.

• Line
• Shape
• Direction
• Texture
• Size
• Color
• Value

Chapter 2: Digital Painting and Photoediting- 2D Raster Graphics

This corresponds to the reading in The Computer In the Visual Arts: Chapter 2 pp38-86

Core Terms:

• The Pixel: "...a point sample- That is, the value of a continuous thing at a single point (with zero dimensions)"-Alvy ray Smith: Read more
• Local Touch
• Global -Touch
• Composition
• Alpha Channel: Read more

Core Concepts:

• Filtering
• High frequency Areas
• Low Frequency Areas
• High Pass Filters
• Low Pass Filters
• Simple Transformations
• Algorithmic Touch
• Plug-ins
• Selection
• Masking
• Image size
• File size
• Resolution
• Color depth

Landmarks in Computer Technology

B.F. Laposky

Alvy Ray Smith:A pioneer in CGI. He Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs formed Pixar.  Here is a list of Memos by Alvy Ray Smith on of the major contributes to the field of Computer Graphics.

CSC 179 Blog

This Blog is to help organize information that is associated with course CSC 179 in Parkland College's department of Computer Science and Information Technology: Digital Media Program.