1 A software developer is using a microphone to collect various sounds for his new game. He is also using a sound editing app.
When collecting sounds, the software developer can decide on the sampling
resolution he wishes to use.
a i What is meant by sampling resolution?
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ii Describe how sampling resolution will affect how accurate
the stored digitised sound will be.
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The software developer will include images in his new game.
bi Explain the term image resolution.
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ii The software developer is using 16-colour bitmap images.
How many bits would be used to encode data for one pixel
of his image?
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iii One of his images is 16 384 pixels wide and 512 pixels high.
He decides to save it as a 256-colour bitmap image.
Calculate the size of the image file in gibibytes.
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iv Describe any file compression techniques the developer
may use.
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