Thursday, October 15, 2009
| CS 1354 – GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA, APRIL / MAY 2008 |
| PART A – (10 x 2 = 20 marks) |
| 1. Define persistence. |
| 2. State the difference between window and viewport. |
| 3. What is ‘Self Affine’ fractals? |
| 4. State the use of glyphs. |
| 5. Define orchestration. |
| 6. List two challenges in multimedia databases. |
| 7. What are high definition systems? |
| 8. What is speech synthesis? |
| 9. Compare distributed systems with multimedia systems. |
| 10. State the need for integrated document management. |
| PART B – (5 x 16 = 80 marks) |
| 11. (a) Use the mid point method to derive decision parameters for generating points |
| along a straight line path with slope in the range 0 <> |
| decision parameters are the same as those in the Bresenham line algorithm. |
| Or |
| (b) Write a routine to split a concave polygon using the vector method. |
| 12. (a) Given the plane parameters A, B, C, D for all surfaces of an object, device and |
| algorithm to determine whether any specified points is inside or outside the object. |
| Or |
| (b) Device a procedure for rotating an object that is represented in an octree structure. |
| 13. (a) Discuss the various aspects of ‘querying the content of video libraries’ with |
| reference to video databases. |
| Or |
| (b) Discuss in detail about the various multimedia data interface standards. |
| 14. (a) Discuss in detail about Digital Video Interactive (DVI) with suitable diagrams. |
| Or |
| (b) Explain in detail about various animation and special effects in 3 dimensions. |
| 15. (a) Write short notes on: [4 marks each] |
| (i) Voice over IP. |
| (ii) Video on demand. |
| (iii) Interactive television. |
| (iv) Movie on demand. |
(b) Discuss in detail about: |
| (i) Hypermedia message creation. [Marks 10] |
| (ii) Mobile messaging. [Marks 6] |



