Multimedia is a collection of hardware and software that allows information to be presented in different formats: text, graphic, sound, video, animation. Interactive multimedia empowers the user to influence the process.
Hardware: - high-performance processor; - random access memory (RAM); - storage media - hard drives and optical drives; - sound cards with mixers and music synthesizers; - video adapters and graphic accelerators; - acoustic systems, etc.: - graphic editors and video editors; - professional programs for processing sound recordings; - programs for video capture; - programs for creating animations, etc. Multimedia technologies: - 3D graphics - three-dimensional graphic images; - sound effects; - MIDI - a standard that allows you to connect digital musical instruments to a computer, record and reproduce their sound; - virtual reality - computer simulation that imitates the real world with a high degree of reliability. At the same time, a feedback has been established with the user - he has the ability to influence the environment. Almost all modern computer games are created using multimedia technologies. You can play them alone or in groups on a local network or on the Internet. Multimedia technologies are also used to create tutorials. Information that comes through several channels is absorbed better and stays in memory longer. Simulators are widely known, thanks to which any user can imagine himself at the helm of an airplane or the steering wheel of a racing car. Scientific research of multimedia is used for modeling processes, in industry and multimedia advertising for presentations and training of personnel, since data can be represented by means of these technologies. accurate and convincing.
