Multimedia is the use of several media (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video) to convey information. Multimedia also refers to the use of computer technology to create, store, and experience multimedia content. In fine art it is a synonym for traditional mixed media as well as technological new media (ArtLex, NWD). Multimedia is also a pleonasm as media is the plural of medium, hence it is a double plural.
Technological Multimedia can be broadly divided into linear and non-linear. Linear, like a film, plays without any navigation control for the viewer. Non-linear offers interactivity.
The various formats of technological or digital multimedia may be intended to enhance the viewer's experience, for example to make it easier and faster to convey information. Or in entertainment or art, to transcend everday experience.
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Atom World - Beautiful space-filling atomic models showing simultaneous polar and covalent bonding. Make any molecule from diamond to DNA; you'll understand chemistry like never before.
Chemist's Art Gallery - Visualization is a key to understanding how molecules behave and react, and in designing chemicals for particular purposes. The Chemist's Art Gallery contains visualizations and animations in chemistry done at the Center for Scientific Computing, Finland.
Chemistry Hypermedia Project - On-line educational hypermedia for general chemistry, analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, optics, and electronics.
Meta Description: [ On-line educational hypermedia for general chemistry, analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, optics, and electronics. ]
Chemistry Visualization Program at NCSA (ChemViz) - Chemviz is a program which uses the power of the World Wide Web in combination with the power of the SGI supercomputer to generate images of atoms, molecules, and atomic orbitals. The user inputs a set of parameters as they are prompted and submits these parameters to the supercomputer. A picture file is generated which the user downloads and views.
ComChem - A student's site presenting visualizations and animations of organic, inorganic and biochemical molecules.
Meta Description: [ Computerchemie - Molekuelbilder und Animationen. - Computational chemistry and molecular modelling ]
Molecules from Chemistry at Okanagan University College - 1100+ molecular models in .pdb or .mol format.
Organic Chemistry at Centre College - Tutorials to help organic chemistry students visualize molecules and changes in molecules. Changes covered include conformations and reactions (substitution and elimination).
Meta Description: [ This site includes Jmol-enabled tutorials to allow students to better understand difficult organic chemistry concepts such as conformations, sterics, stereochemistry. There are also Jmol-enabled animations for substitution and elimination reactions. The Spectral Zoo is a set of combined spectra... ]
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The IrYdium Project - Provides a number of simulations (in applet form) as well as other curriculum development tools with the goal of revolutionizing the way chemistry is taught.
X-ray Spectra - Contains x-ray spectra of elements on the periodic table. The spectra are drawn with a java applet.
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