W
walk-through -
A type of animated presentation
that simulates a walking tour of a three-dimensional scene.
walk-up-and-use
interface -
An interface that the target audience
should be able to use without having to read manuals or instructions, even
if they have never seen the interface.
waveform
-
(1) A graphic representation of the shape
of a wave that indicates its characteristics (such as frequency and amplitude).
(2) A digital method of storing and manipulating audio data.
wide
shot -
wild
footage -
Synonym for original footage.
window -
An area
of the screen with visible boundaries within which information is displayed.
A window can be smaller than or the same size as the screen. Windows can
appear to overlap on the screen.
window coordinates
-
The size and location of a window.
wipe
-
Technical effect of fading away one screen
to reveal another.
workplace -
A
container that fills the entire screen and holds all of the objects that
make up the user interface.
write once/read many
(WORM) -
Describes an optical disc that once
written to, cannot be overwritten. Storage capacity ranges from 400MB to
3.2GB. Present technology allows only one side to be read at a time; to
access the other side, the disk must be turned over.
WS
-
Script abbreviation for wide shot.
WYSIWYG -
What You
See Is What You Get. The appearance of the object is in actual form. For
example, a document that looks the same on a display screen as it does when
it is printed. Composed views of objects are often WYSIWYG.
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