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Facial Expressions Computer Animation
704 wordsCOMPUTERS IN ANIMATION SHERBERT JAMES BRIDGES 04 - 24 - 2000 THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN ANIMATION The use of motion capture for computer character animation is relatively new, having begun in the late 1970 's, and only now beginning to become widespread. Motion capture is the recording of human body movement (or other movement) for immediate or delayed analysis and playback. The information captured can be as general as the simple position of the body in space or as complex as the deformations of t...
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Friends And Family Horror Films
1,753 wordsHow on earth do horror film directors sleep at night? Don't they ever wake up and say, "Is this what my life is about: making people fear dark rooms, old houses, and things that go bump in the night?" How do they stand it all? What inspires them to create these vividly outrageous spins on reality? These may be the questions often asked by people who don't quite understand the method behind the madness that is the horror film. These questions will be answered in this paper as it explains the deve...
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Due To The Fact Needham Heights
1,266 words... fect of the camera circling the actors while the motion remained still. This gave the effect that time was able to stand still while the actors were able to defy the laws of gravity. This is a good example of how technology was used to enhance techniques that have been around for many years, in order to create a certain mood. By manipulating what the audience knows as the reality the directors were able to create something that had never been seen before, because of this it was much easier f...
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Electron Beam Display Screen
1,097 wordsComputer graphics is the use of computers to produce pictorial images. The images produced can be printed documents or animated motion pictures, but the term computer graphics refers particularly to images displayed on a video display screen, or display monitor. These screens can display graphic as well as alphanumeric data. A computer-graphics system basically consists of a computer to store and manipulate images, a display screen, various input and output devices, and a graphics software packa...
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Virtual Reality Magnetic Field
1,640 words... head and other parts of the body that are interfacing with the computer. Many companies have developed successful methods of allowing six degrees of freedom including Polhemus Research, and Shooting Star Technology. Six degrees of freedom refers to a combination cartesian coordinate system and an orientation system with rotation angles called roll, pitch and yaw. The ADL- 1 from Shooting Star is a sophisticated and inexpensive (relative to other trackers) 6 D tracking system which is mounted...
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Computer Animation George Lucas
1,358 words... Cartoons now had to manufactured in quantity and cheaply. The same gags were worked and reworked. Audiences became apathetic as the novelty of seeing drawings come to life wore off. This caused a depression in the animation business that coincided with the depression in the economy of the United States. Computer Animation Computer animation has revolutionized special effects in the film industry by introducing several important factors into animation. Innovative areas such as computer-animat...
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Aid Academy Award
1,412 words... an Academy Award for its animated short film, Tin Toy. The film was created completely with 3 D computer graphics using Pixar's Renderman, a technique that uses 'shaders' or small pieces of programming code to describe surfaces, lighting effects and atmospheric effects. Surface shaders are small programs that algorithmically generate textures of objects based on mathematical formulas. These computer generated textures produce better looking objects, thus creating newer and better special eff...
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Virtual Reality Learning Environments
1,354 wordsPotentials and Challenges Computer graphics technology enables us to create a remarkable variety of digital images and displays that, given the right conditions, effectively enrich education [Clark 1983 ]. Real-time computer graphics are an essential component of the multi-sensory environment of Virtual Reality (VR). This article addresses the unique characteristics of emerging VR technology and the potential of virtual worlds as learning environments. I will describe several key attributes of V...
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Special Effects Computer Graphics
2,445 wordsFilm Terminator 2 Terminator immediately became the classics of fantastic films. According to Andy Cox (1998) Terminator II has a very important story to tell about our technological attitudes and anxieties in the late 20 th century. Technology as both savior and destroyer, as male and capitalistic, are all important themes in the movie. The protagonist promised Ill be back and he kept his promise. The years passed by and both producer and the main character has changed a lot. Arnold became one ...
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21 St Century Walt Disney
2,749 wordsIf one would sum up all the economical, social and technological progress our society has gone through for the past two centuries he would clearly see that the human race has done a great leap during this period when comparing to the two millenniums past after the major reformation in our mindset. On the verge of the 21 st century numerous discoveries have been made which have considerably enhanced our lifestyle making it much easier to oppose the severity of nature and considerably separating u...
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Artificial Intelligence Deep Blue
1,870 words... if you describe the rust spots on your car, MYCIN will likely diagnose your car with meningitis as well. (Mechner, 1998). At the heart of many game-playing programs is an evaluation function. Early on, game developers quickly encountered the knowledge-acquisition bottleneck and traded quality of knowledge for speed of the program. Simple evaluation functions, linear combinations of easily identifiable features, were the mainstay of computer game programs for many decades. Alternative approac...
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20 Th Century Advances In Technology
2,571 wordsTechnology in Film Over the years film has meant many different things to many different types of people. Cultures have been forever changed due to certain films being made. One of the things that has maintained films to stay appealing to audiences are the continuing advances in technology that keep films interesting, as well as challenge filmmakers to constantly develop new ideas. I will show how technology and the use therein contributes to film and the creative aspect that goes into producing...
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Virtual Reality Three Dimensional
1,306 wordsVirtual Reality is a creation of a highly interactive computer based multimedia environment in which the user becomes a participant with the computer in a virtually real world We are living in an era characterized by 3 D virtual systems created by computer graphics. In the concept called Virtual Reality (VR), the virtual reality engineer is combining computer, video, image-processing, and sensor technologies so that a human can enter into and react with spaces generated by computer graphics. In ...
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Computer Graphics George Lucas
2,933 wordsIS 490 SPECIAL TOPICS Computer Graphics May 6, 1996 Table of Contents Introduction 3 How It Was 3 How It All Began 4 Times Were Changing 6 Industry's First Attempts 7 The Second Wave 10 How the Magic is Made 11 Modeling 12 Animation 13 Rendering 13 Conclusion 15 Bibliography 16 Introduction Hollywood has gone digital, and the old ways of doing things are dying. Animation and special effects created with computers have been embraced by television networks, advertisers, and movie studios alike. Fi...
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1 And 2 Virtual Reality
950 wordsThe world of mathematics usually tends to be thought of as abstract. Complex and imaginary numbers, real numbers, logarithms, functions, some tangible and others im perceivable. But these abstract numbers, simply symbols that conjure an image, a quantity, in our mind, and complex equations, take on a new meaning with fractals a concrete one. Fractals go from being very simple equations on a piece of paper to colorful, extraordinary images, and most of all, offer an explanation to things. The imp...
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Multiple Personality Disorder Apartment
1,735 wordsThe latest novel written by Sidney Sheldon, ? Tell Me Your Dreams? , is about three stunning young women. Their names are Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott, and Alette Peters. They all live in Cupertino, California and work at Global Computer Graphics, a successful, fast-growing young company with two hundred employees in Silicon Valley. Ashley Patterson is a confused woman, but is smart and beautiful. She? s lonely, timid, and certainly convinced she? s being stalked. Toni Prescott is an insolent...
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Journal Entry Computer Graphics
2,095 wordsBeing only fourteen years old, making big decisions can be very difficult. Latin is a complicated language to learn, with all the different rules for every possible scenario. There are several key points that went into me deciding to make Latin a class for the next five years of my life, right throughout high school until I graduate. The first and foremost would have to be the idea of the English languages base in Latin roots; in other words, studying Latin improves my English vocabulary. That a...
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