Multimedia representation of matrix computations and data

Distance learning, virtual universities, as well as knowledge discovery from the Internet are emerging to effect the worldwide transformation of educational systems and the establishment of knowledge-based societies. In this paper, we present an idea of “smart” pieces of data/knowledge to be used for new types of the educational environment. As an example, we consider our approach for the multimedia representation of matrix computations. The approach is based on “filmification” of methods and data, and related to special-purpose pictures and animations rendering results of computation and schemes of corresponding computational methods. To create these pictures and animations, as well as to manipulate films, special techniques and subsystems are considered. Film stills of three well-known methods are also provided.