I am choosing to investigate Flash.
I have started by seeing exactly what flash is by typing it into “Ask Jeeeves.” It seems to have created more questions than it has solved. The definition was: it is a compression scheme for video that Adobe owns and uses to service multiple computer platforms and mobile devices. YouTube, Hulu, a great deal of animations, games online, many advertisements are Flash. The software was previously owned and developed by two other companies Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash.
Flash is a vector and raster drawing based animation program that aides in creating small sized files. Some have used as a drawing program and have paired its use with Freehand or Illustrator to create significant works. Flash can capture user computer actions with mouse, keyboard, microphones, and cameras. The input can be uploaded and handle by the software to create an interactive interface. Advantages of the small file size and the way Flash uses CPU time is the reduced bandwith to deliver information over the internet.
A side issue to Flash is Flash Paper that is based on the same vector based coding of images to render files smaller and efficient in the online or any environment. This aspect is more similar to a PDF file rather than an animation file. Flash Paper also has some extra feature readily available for increasing or decreasing page size. Due to the nature of it’s graphics file sizes are even more improved over the size savings gained from PDF files while still having the same portability. Adobe discontinued Flash Paper in 2008 after a long fall in use over several years.
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