Wednesday, March 19, 2014

COMP6023 DCOM1b Classes 31 & 32

Students worked on the assignments. I am keen for students to finish soon. There is no reason to delay. Students already have all the information they need to complete all the assignments.

COMP6023 ITM1 Classes 31 & 32 Labs

Students worked on the assignments. I am keen for students to finish soon. There is no reason to delay. Students already have all the information they need to complete all the assignments.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 30 Transparency, PNG, & Video

There were only 8 students in class and not all of them were awake.





We looked at transparency and the PNG format.

I outlined how video compression works.

COMP6021 Class 29 Video Compression



We looked a Bi-directional prediction and Block Matching.




I gave students a short exercise to see how time consuming block matching is.



COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 30 Legal Issues

I talked a little bit about libel, hate speech, and community standards.

We began looking at copyright and will continue in the next class.

[No recording of this class]

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 29 Transparency, PNG, Video Compression



We looked at Transparency and PNGs.

We looked a little bit at how video compression works. Students who want so know more can find more detail in COMP6021 classes.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

COMP6023 DCOM1 Class 26 GIF & JEPG



We looked at GIF & JPEG

COMP6021 Class 28 Video Compression




We began our look at video compression. We will continue with video compression in the next class.

We mentioned frame rates in class. I capture the lectures at a mere 1 frame per second.

COMP6023 DWEB1 Classes 27 & 28 Dithering lab

Students did a dithering exercise using Photoshop.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

COMP6023 SEO Example

Thanks to a problem with my roof I recently found this ideal example of a website that is in need of some SEO. The whole site is a collection of images.

http://www.pjsroofing.eu/


COMP6021 Class 27 Lab

We did some dithering experiments using Photoshop

COMP6021 Class 26 Transparency & PNG



We looked at transparency, alpha channels, and PNG.

[due to a technology failure there is no recording of today's class. The (shockingly similar) class above is from four years ago.]


COMP6023 DCOM1b Classes 27 & 28



We did some experiments with dithering in Photoshop.

COMP6023 ITM1 Classes 27 & 28 Lab

We did some experiments with dithering in Photoshop.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

COMP6021/COMP6023 Animated GIFs Documentary


COMP6021/COMP6023 JPEG



Here's an online video I made some time about about JPEG. It is largely the same as what we did in class.




This rather unusual logo has it origins in the way JPEG works.

COMP6023 DNET1 Labs

For the remaining 6 weeks of the semester the DNET1 labs will be taken with James O'Sullivan. I will still see students in the lectures.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 26 GIF & JPEG

We looked at GIF & JPEG image formats.

[no recording due to technical problems]

COMP6021 Class 25 GIF & JPEG


the one with the DCT



We looked at the main features of the GIF and JPEG image formats.

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 26 GIF & JPEG



We looked at the main features of GIF & JPEG.

Students now ave everything they need to complete Assignment 2.