Sunday, October 21, 2007

Key Quotes

‘HUNG Keung is an independent filmmaker and new media artist bases in Hong Kong……Since 1998, his interactive CDROM Project “Human Being & Moving Images”, which focus on the relationship between the limitation of human being and extension of interaction and moving images.’
http://www.hungkeung.hk/main.htm

‘Digital art is art created on a computer in digital form. Digital art can be purely computer-generated, such as fractals, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph, or an image drawn using vector graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Art

‘There are two main paradigms in computer generated imagery. The simplest is 2D computer graphics which reflect how you might draw using a pencil and a piece of paper. In this case, however, the image is on the computer screen and the instrument you draw with might be a tablet stylus or a mouse. What is generated on your screen might appear to be drawn with a pencil, pen or paintbrush.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Art

‘The second kind is 3D computer graphics, where the screen becomes a window into a virtual environment, where you arrange objects to be "photographed" by the computer. Of course the image generated is 2D, so you can always take it into your paint program for additions, in the same way Weekly World Inquirer Magazine inserted the space aliens in the coffee bar. Typically, 2D computer graphics use raster graphics as their primary means of source data respresentations, whereas 3D computer graphics use vector graphics.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Art

‘A digital image may be created directly from a physical scene by a camera or similar device. Alternatively, it may be obtained from another image in an analog medium, such as photographs, photographic film, or printed paper, by a scanner or similar device. Many technical images—such as those acquired with tomographic equipment, side-looking radar, or radio telescopes—are actually obtained by complex processing of non-image data. Finally, a digital image can also be computed from a geometric model or mathematical formula’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_imaging

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