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

In 1965 Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) rolled out the PDP-8, the world's first "____."

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

By the mid-1990s, computer hardware could handle the computational demands required to create realistic three-dimensional images.

In 1952, a UNIVAC I cost $12 million.

In a(n) ____________________, there are tens of thousands of users simultaneously accessing hundreds or thousands of game servers across multiple communication channels.

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

The most widely used and well-known metaverse is ____, a virtual world created by Linden Labs in 2003.

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

Explain in detail what medical imaging is and what is empowers physicians to do.

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

How are graphics operations handled in the absence of a GPU?

A movie is an interactive environment.

On March 31, 1952, Remington Rand delivered its first machine to the ____.

Today the quality of a typical video game image approaches the level achieved by high-quality, feature-film CGI. _________________________

____ games allow a large number of players, often thousands or tens of thousands, to interact, form groups, and compete against one another within a simulated virtual world.

What is the first step in generating a realistic three-dimensional image?

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.

King Kong's movements in the 1933 film were created using a manual technique called ____.

Using computers for entertainment had by the late 1970s become an important, not to mention financially lucrative, industry and that growth has continued unabated.

____ 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.