visual communication and computers

“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

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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

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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

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https://www.khanacademy.org/

https://www.udacity.com/

https://www.coursera.org/

http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

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Wearable Computer With An Optical Head-mounted Display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4