visual communication and computers
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“Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.” Steve Jobs, 1955–2011 Engineer, Industrialist, Guru
Prepared by Danielle Oser, APR
One of the most inf luential directors in the field of CGI is James Cameron.
One of Cameron’s first sci-fi attempts http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4y2yh_xenogenesis-1978-directed-by-james_shortfilms#.UN4M3bZ8vuw
Cameron served as a model maker for this movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJTPdNNQB4
Created the first realistic water using CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJyRF0Fzl9Y
Cameron’s “King of the World” movie – Titanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCy5WQ9S4c0
Several groups of professionals may lose business if CGI technology replaces actors in movies Agents, actors, stunt
personnel, prop people, makeup artists, and caterers.
Helped to “wake up” Hollywood to the power of CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eajuMYNYtuY
Behind the Scenes of Avatar (2009)
One of Cameron’s most ambitions and expensive CGI projects – $500 million to make = $2 billion worldwide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1_JBMrrYw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ George Lucas started Industrial Light and Motion during the filming of Star Wars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efV2wqEjEY The movie Tron should have propelled the field of CGI except for the fact that it was a box office bomb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_xpFZe20A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFMLGEHdIjE Total Recall is the last major motion picture to use models for special effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bim7RtKXv90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_SfrHHBAc&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_24492
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bzqHbTD64w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7YllAOqpF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4BKd6p5m0&feature=fvst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RuAlyNclck Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GClFIhQ4n8
Arthur C. Clark
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/tcmwebpage/marketing/posterhistoryofcomputers1975.jpg
First calculator – used to predict astronomical positions
The British inventor who designed what he called a “difference engine”
1st computer programmer – wrote the instructions for Babbage’s engine and foresaw the machine had capabilities beyond calculations Also coins the word “Artificial Intelligence”
Punch-card calculator
First Automatic Electronic Digital Computer ABC pioneered important elements of modern computing, including binary arithmetic and electronic switching elements,
but its special-purpose nature and lack of a changeable, stored program distinguish it from modern computers.
The first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve "a large class of numerical problems"
Created a visual display
Last room-sized computer that used vacuum tubes
Early warning defense system one of the first to use a monitor
Semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power. The transistor is the fundamental building block of modern electronic devices, and is ubiquitous in modern electronic systems.
Use transistors for added speed and reliability Jack Kilby’s idea to link transistors on a circuit board made it possible to build cheaper, smaller computers.
Started a company that later became IBM Invents the 1st electric calculator to count and sort census data from punch cards
Oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's distinctive management style and corporate culture, and turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely around punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.[
“The greatest capitalist in history" and one of "100 most inf luential people of the 20th century“ Tom Jr. took the company in a new direction, hiring electrical engineers by the hundreds and putting them to work designing mainframe computers
Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft
This amateur device led Bill Gates and Paul Allen to form Microsoft to create a program to understand commands from a user
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
The technical genius behind Apple Computers was Steve Wozniak The marketing wizard behind Apple Computers was Steve Jobs.
http://www.designverb.com/wp-content/images/2007/06/apple_evolution.jpg
Sold 175 @ $500 each
Changed the game for visual communicators by making Desktop Publishing a reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
More than 300,000 sold the first day
Refers to the physical devices used to store programs (sequences of instructions) or data (e.g. program state information) on a temporary or permanent basis for use in a computer or other digital electronic device
A central processing unit (CPU) is the hardware within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system.
Connect cords between CPU and other devices USB – Ethernet - Telephone
Send data to the CPU
Vital to Visual Communicators
Violent Themes Sexual Themes Image Manipulation
The first interactive computer game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmvb4Hktv7U
1st Arcade Game – Helped Launch Atari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhdu2Jh9cuc
Plugs into your TV to play Table Tennis game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2EIsnr_cv4
Computer game originally in 1971 was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers Designed to encourage adoption of the Apple IIe PLAY THE GAME: http://www.kongregate.com/games/mindrevelation/oregon-trail
Pass Play On The Madden Football Game, 1990 Pass Play On The Madden Football Game, 2013
http://www.complex.com/video-games/2014/03/the-25-most-violent-video-games/madworld
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/tech/gaming-gadgets/controversial-violent-video-games/
More realistic violent games were created https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qAPbXNq0dc
Doom, Quake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XorJfexzF4M
Violent games were established as popular and lucrative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tshPSxS9dGY
http://www.axisanimation.com/index.php?id=1027&loc=Stuart%20Aitken
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-lists
One of the 1st sex-oriented games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCxFGxqLsHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzCXzlL8xkE
Dirt Devil with Fred Astaire, 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpOvzGiheOM All Mac vs. PC ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo
Logos are representative of their founding fathers
Paul Rand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWZrf kVo8rY 2001: A Space Odyssey was the first major motion picture to use computer graphic effects.
The Matrix, 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8e-FF8MsqU
Trends to Watch
Online multi-player games grow in popularity
http://mozy.com/#slide-5
https://www.khanacademy.org/
https://www.udacity.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
http://www.apple.com/apps/itunes-u/?cid=wwa-us-kwg-features-com&siclientid=6381&sessguid=e35818a1-3f58-491f-9660-1c5c36f22500&userguid=e35818a1-3f58-491f-9660-1c5c36f22500&permguid=e35818a1-3f58-491f-9660-1c5c36f22500
Wearable Computer With An Optical Head-mounted Display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4