1.2 Taxonomy of Multimedia

There are six types of multimedia objects: text, graphics, sound, video, animation, and software. Figure 1.1 depicts the taxonomy of multimedia:

Different types of text can be used in multimedia including printed text, scanned text, electronic text

and hypertext.

Different graphic objects can be used in multimedia including bitmap, vector image, clip art, digitalized

pictures and hyper pictures.

Sound objects of different types can be used in multimedia including waveform audio, CD audio, MIDI

and MP3.

A variety of video objects can be used in multimedia including live feeds, video tape, video disk, digital

video and DVD.

Animations such as frame animation, vector animation and 3D volume morphing objects can be used in

multimedia.

1.2 Taxonomy of Multimedia