CS 1025 01 - Week #11 (Nov 03, 05, 07)

Monday, November 3rd

1. Snow Falling and Chimney Smoking - Adobe After Effects.

2. Smoke effect in Adobe After Effects via a Wiggle() Expression.

3. Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 movie: The Birds. Luckily there are hardly any phone booths left these days now that cell phones are everywhere! The Birds was the JAWS of the 60s, perhaps.

4. From CS 2880 12: Visual Effects, Animation, and Motion Graphics 12 MWF Spring 2015 class.
   From: Digital Matte Painting Essentials 1: Concept with David Mattingly

   Albert Whitlock is the second great matte artist of the pre-digital age 
   that you should know about.  Whitlock was long associated with Alfred Hitchcock
   and his film, The Birds, is one of Whitlock's masterpieces. 
   Other movies that include matte paintings by Albert Whitlock 
   that you should check out are, The Hindenburg, The Sting, and 
   Mel Brooks' History of the World Part 1. 
     
   I began my career painting on glass. But the availability of the digital 
   tools I will introduce you to in this course has rendered those older 
   techniques obsolete. 
   

5. Birds flocking NetLogo model and history of Boids graphics and simulation.

6. NetLOGO, Adobe After Effects: Bird Flocking Assignment (formerly part of take-home final exam project):
   Due on Friday, November 7th.

   Turn in hard copy of the rewritten (or retyped) questions or paraphrased questions. Do NOT just turn in the fill in the blank answers out of the context of the question!

Wednesday, November 5th

1. The Empirical Rule - Normal Distributions and NetLOGO model to check the 68, 95, and 99.7 values of the 1, 2 and 3 standard deviations.

2. Exponential Growth: Folding a sheet of paper in half 50 times (or doubling the number of sheets of paper you have 50 times).

      10                                20
     2   = 1024 = 1 kilobyte = 1K      2   = 1024K = 1 megabyte = 1M
   
      30                                 40
     2   = 1024M = 1 gigabyte = 1G      2   = 1024G = 1 terabyte = 1T
   
      50                                  5
     2   = 1024T = 1 petabyte = 1P    1024  = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024
                                            
                                            = 1,125,899,906,842,624 = 1P or 1PB
                                          5
                                      1000  = 1,000,000,000,000,000
   

   Multiple of bytes - kB, MB, GB, TB and PB...

   Start with 1 sheet.     Times doubling it        Thickness 
                           or folding it in half    or # of Sheets
                           ---------------------    --------------
                              1                          2
                              2                          4
                              3                          8
                              4                         16
                              5                         32
                              6                         64
                              7                        128
                              8                        256
                              9                        512 (close to 500)
                             10                       1024 = 1 KB or 1 kB
                                                                      or 1K
              1 Bit = Binary Digit
             8 Bits = 1 Byte
         1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte 
     1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
     1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte 
     1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte 
     1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte 
   

Friday, November 7th

ASSIGNMENT DUE TODAY - see Monday handout and links
BIRD FLOCKING - BIRD FLYING

1. CC1 to CC11 and NL1 to NL4 pen/pencil hard copy assignment due TODAY in class. You can word process it if you wish, but not necessary. Creative Cow = CC and NetLOGO = NL.