Abstract: Apparatus and a method for communicating media over a network including encoding the media into a server database at a server, downloading from the server database to a client database generally only those portions of the media which are necessary to satisfy user requests and in response to a user request for a given item of media, determining whether the media is present in the client database, and if not, automatically downloading those portions of the media which are necessary to supply the user with the given item of media from the server database.

Abstract: A method for transforming a source digital image into a target digital image to produce an effect of warping including identifying pixel locations within the target image, identifying pixel locations within the source image associated with the pixel locations within the target image, and copying the pixel attribute values from a source neighborhood of each pixel location within the source image, the source neighborhood being defined by means of a source acceleration pixel template, into pixel attribute values for the corresponding pixel locations in a target neighborhood of each associated pixel location within the target image, the target neighborhood being defined by means of a target acceleration pixel template containing at least two pixel locations. A system for carrying out the method is also described and claimed.