Exam 16: Computer Graphics and Entertainment: Movies, Games, and Virtual Communities

____________________ means taking an object stored as a mathematical model and converting it into a fully formed, visually pleasing three-dimensional image.

Explain the animation technique used in the 1933 film King Kong .

Stop-motion special effects were first used in fantasy, adventure, and science-fiction movies of the 1940s.

The process of "move the model, shoot a frame" was repeated thousands of times when filming King Kong .

The server software that creates the MMOG world is always running and always available, and it always remembers the current state of every player. _________________________

In the technique known as ____, first it is determined which planes can be seen from the user's point of view, based on location and opaqueness, and then only those objects visible in the next frame are rendered, omitting all operations on hidden surfaces.

A noncompetitive MMOG is sometimes called a ____.

In stop-motion animation, a single photograph is called a ____.

____________________ algorithms follow millions (or billions)of light rays from their source to an object's surface and any subsequent reflections can produce truly lifelike images and take minutes or hours to render a single frame.

On March 31, 1952, the UNIVAC I was delivered to the ____.

With a GPU, all imaging responsibilities are offloaded from the GPU to the CPU.

____________________ is an important feature of MMOGs, which must keep track of each user's activity to ensure that his or her actions do not incorrectly or inappropriately affect the actions of other players.

Culls are fully modeled and fully rendered objects stored in a video library in video memory. _________________________

What is the operative principal in producing video game images?

____ is a rapidly growing area of computer and biological science research in which computers and graphics software are used to produce highly accurate two- and three-dimensional images of the human body.

Using a CGI technique called keyframing, a human animator only needs to produce only the _________ in a sequence, and the elapsed time.

A movie is an interactive environment.

A GPU executes instructions in parallel with the ________, the main processor, and carries out all graphics operations including modeling, motion, rendering, and display.

The branch of computer graphics that studies methods for creating images at a rate matching that of the real world is called ____.

In an MMOG, the system must simply ensure that all users adhere to the rules of the game, not the legality of the operations.