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

One way to achieve speedup in real-time graphics is to avoid the use of ____________________ that, although they produce high-quality images, simply take too much time.

Discuss movies and video games in terms of their interactive environments.

Currently there are 21 million residents of ____________________, which would make it the 55th-largest country in the world.

What are three examples of issues addressed during the rendering process?

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

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

Using a CGI technique called ____, a human animator only needs to produce the first frame, containing the starting location of the object; the last frame, containing the final location of the object; and the elapsed time.

What is rigid motion, and what are the types of rigid motion?

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

In CGI, the abstract concept of motion is defined in terms of ____________________, an algorithmic operation easily programmed on a computer.