Ghostbusters, Waggle Dancing Bees, and Steps of the Modeling Process
Answer these take home final exam questions - They are mostly fill in the blank, short answer, watch the video and transcribe the correct term or word or phrase.
Back to the previous take-home final exam page. YOU NEED BOTH! - http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/025/f10/f/GB1.html - GB1.html means GhostBusters is #1 - i.e. G B #1. GB = LAC.
TWO PAGE FALL 2011 Take Home Test Part 2 questions.
From 1:52 to 2:24 - watch this 32 seconds several times. Flight, flocking, helicopter, prehistoric birds.
Author of book Jurassic Park tribute: Michael Crichton - TV show ER (Good connection to the SIM ONE simulation model used at USC medical school).
Described as author of scientific thrillers. Science and mathematics should be thrilling, right? It can be. Right? Write! Biction! The last 3 letters of the word THINK. Let the INK flow.
"a great storyteller" "In 1994 he created the award winning TV series, ER." Answer the following fill in the blank question: JP1. "Steven Spielberg, Jurassic Park's director and Crichton's friend for forty years said Michael's talent outscaled even his own _______________________________________________."
You tube video that looks at every species of dinosaur in the movie Jurassic Park: From 01:23 to 01:42 is the scene in the movie after which they discuss having observed the amazing flocking behavior amonst the fleet footed, graceful sprinting Gallimimus who nearly trample them, perhaps like a herd of stampeding buffalo in the movie Dances With Wolves.
Watch only the first 4 minutes 35 seconds of the video tutorial. (04:35 of 07:52). Answer the following questions: CC1. What are the two layers that make up the bird model? This is just a fill in the blank question! :-) (What is the names of each of the two layers is okay, but its about the same as what you would likely call that part of a real life bird, lol)? ____________________________________ and ________________________________________ CC2. At about 01:48 the tutorial speaker says: "Next, lets get this wing set up so we can have it ____________________________ ___________________________." (This is a Fill in the two blanks question). CC3. Why does the tutorial teacher type the letter A at 02:05 into the video tutorial? (Watch 01:48 to 02:50) What property is revealed? (Hint: if you were in the Navy, you would have a huge advantage on at least the first word of this two word property name). _______________________________________ _______________________________________ CC4. What problem did he demonstrate when rotating the wing that was the occasion for the need to expose and change the property (revealed by letter A shortcut) to more effectively model a flying bird? (This is a short answer question, NOT a fill in the blanks). CC5. Which rotation for the wing does the tutorial teacher change? (This is a multiple choice question). a. X rotation or b. Y rotation or c. Z rotation Circle the one best answer above. 3D Graphics uses X and Y and Z and they match Red and Green and Blue. X Y Z rhymes with R G B and R G and B are one letter acronyms for the three one syllable words red, green and blu CC6. "Lets also change all of the keyframes from __________________________ keyframes to ______________________ keyframes." "This will cause the wing motion to ______________ _______ and ____________ of the most extreme parts of the motion, as they would do in real life." The above 5 blanks can be filled in with 5 words that you will learn as you watch the video from 04:08 to 04:32, which is only 24 or 25 seconds of the entire video tutorial. This CC6 question is a 5 part Fill in the Blank question. " ... as they do in real life." is an interesting phrase. All computer models and simulations are done in virtual worlds, in digital life in numbers, equations, and stunning CGI graphics and visual representations and animations. The closer we model the real life system, the better and the more useful the model is. The ISU Cyclones psychology students excellent stat rap might apply here, and the following fabulous fifteen comes to mind. "Which model is best, which is robust which model leaves the others in the dust?"Superb Iowa State Stat Rap video - of special interest to English, Art and Electronic Media majors, and anyone elsej, no matter what the major, with a pulse. Needed by January 1st of 2012. Comp Modeling and Simulation rap, similar in spirit and educational, motivational value to the ISU stat rap.
Transcription of 90% of the Stat Rap lyrics for IMSA and UBMS statistics students.
Creative Cow fill in the blank questions 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, i.e. ----> CC7, CC8, CC9, CC10 and CC11. Okay, I want this bird to float around the comp window a bit, so I'm going to add a wiggle expression to it's position property. This will create a small amount of random motion for some added realism. ... and then add the expression you're seeing here on your screen. This expression means: CC7. One time per __________________________________ wiggle the layer CC8. up to ________ CC9. _________________________ off its current location on every axis. CC10. So our first number is a ______________________ of wiggle, CC11. and our second number is the ____________________ of wiggle.
NL1: What three rules do the birds follow in the Netlogo BIRDS model? (Interface, Information, Procedures) - you want the INFORMATION tab) ________________________________________ and __________________________________________ and ______________________________________ NL2: For each one of the three words you found an filled in the blanks with for question NL1 above, look up the definition of that word in a dictionary and write down the dictionary definition and derivation information about the word, the term for the rule. Term 1 dictionary definition/derivation: Term 2 dictionary definition/derivation: Term 3 dictionary definition/derivation:
Adobe After Effects enhanced photo - See the 3 Ghostbusters - Pete, Ray and Egon - characters representing problem solving, programming, building computer simulations and models, and also applying to far more - communication, dialogue, politics, music, sports psychology -
Ghostbuster's song segment with some dialogue from scene #3 - Scott and Jennifer and Dr. Peter Venkman - negative reinforcement and ESP ability. Another version of the same Flash application visually shows the left and right sound channels for the stereo song.
Pages on Decentralization from the book in case you sold yours back already: Decentralization.pdf - the first ten pages of chapter 01 are all you will need.
Decentralization concepts from the Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams book.
VIP resource - The group exercise brain-storming session from last Wednesday's class.
Please turn about one page of your thoughts, insights, confusions, and/or connections (to your major, hobbies, interests, career goals, citizenship, current events) with the Resnick Turtles, Termites and Traffic jams focus on this agent based modeling (NetLogo was our software vehicle) concept he stresses.
Note: A discussion question will be posted on UNI eLearning for you to BLOG about and share your ideas during the final exam period. We will also discuss it briefly during the final exam period. You can prepare your ideas BEFORE then, or wait until 10 a.m. Wednesday morning in StudioIT 1 hands-on final exam period session to BLOG about it and get help with UNI eLearning with me present to help.