Tue Feb 3 lecture notes

• Show and Tell from You

• Copyright, "fair use", plaigarism, and all that.
  • It's easy to grab things off the net. What's legal?
  • wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
  • Wander through fairuse.stanford.edu.
  • Discuss.
  • "view page source" - the copyright notice may not show up in your browser - and may not be on the first page you see. (For example, do a google image search on "unicorn", and check out the one at grandpasgeneral.com.)
  • images, music, dvd, ...
  • related homework

• Images
  • installing the Gimp - see Resources on home page
  • discuss color cube, bits per pixel
  • discuss lossy vs lossless compression; jpeg, gif, png, etc.
  • point to local copy of documentation - again see Resources
  • define layer, channel, transparency, alpha-channel, RBG, CMYK,