Not every animation on the web is Flash but currently the
majority is. There exists simple GIF based animations as well as other
technologies for animation such as Silverlight and HTML5. Most believe HTML5
will eventually replace Flash.
Figure 1: An image — an array or a matrix of pixels arranged in columns and rows.
In a (8-bit) greyscale image each picture element has an assigned intensity that
ranges from 0 to 255. A grey scale image is what people normally call a black and
white image, but the name emphasizes that such an image will also include many
shades of grey.
Figure 2: Each pixel has a value from 0 (black) to 255 (white). The possible range of the pixel
values depend on the colour depth of the image, here 8 bit = 256 tones or greyscales.
A normal greyscale image has 8 bit colour depth = 256 greyscales. A “true colour”
image has 24 bit colour depth = 8 x 8 x 8 bits = 256 x 256 x 256 colours = ~16
million colours.
Media is the surface or material that an artist works on
