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

A point or axis used to control the motion of an object is called a(n) key point._________________________

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

What is the operative principal in producing video game images?

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

____ 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.

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

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

CBS used the UNIVAC I to predict the outcome of the 1952 presidential election.

Typically, a ____ has its own dedicated random access memory where it stores its image data and which is separate from primary memory.

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

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

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.

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

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

The sequence of operations that must be completed successfully to produce a realistic three-dimensional image sequence is termed the ____.

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

A noncompetitive MMOG is sometimes called a ____.

The world in which the MMOG action takes place is created and managed by special computers called ____.

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

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