Computer Animation

A picture is worth 1000 words. Tom and Jerry cartoon, being the all time favorite of many is enjoyed even without the dialogues. Who wouldn't love the jolly green ogre and humors donkey in the movie Shrek? Movies like Shrek and Finding Nemo, has taken animation to a great heights. Animation is one of the powerful and smartest product in Hollywood. Walt Disney's animated characters are world famous icons adored by several people in all parts of the world. You can see computer animation everywhere, right from the Animated E-Cards, logo, animated screen savers, commercials, TV shows, computer games and movies. There are several fun games, animated tutorials teaching vocabulary and math to children. It is the animation that attracts kids to use computer even at preschool level. The advancement in computer technology has revolutionized the field of animation. It is swiftly growing and has huge impact on all ages to people.

What is animation?
Animation is the technique of sequencing several drawings and creating a rapid movement to add life to it. The speed in the movement creates optical illusion and the persistence of vision makes the picture realistic. In this the drawings seems to move. Animation is the realm of fantasy. Flip book is one of the simple sample of animation. It consist of sequence of drawings in every page of the book and when it is flipped rapidly by thumbing, it creates an illusion of motion. Creating an animation is time consuming, strenuous work. Each drawings or the frame in the sequence, must be blend seamlessly with the other frames to create smooth and continuous motion in time. Time line is very important in this too. For one second of animation, they use 24 frames.

Animation types:
With the advancement in technology, there are several techniques used in animation. Traditionally, animation was created by hand drawing the pictures frame by frame for the action. It is quiet tedious and time consuming. Computer animation removes the need for many of the extra tools required to create an animation. Computer animation with 2D and 3D techniques, is widely used. Images generated through this technique is known as Computer generated images (CGI). Animation involves storyboarding which sequences the scenes and actions of the character. The sound track are done even before creating the actual animation because it determines the timing of the frame. But they redo this every time until they get the final perfection. 3D animation involves modeling, animating and rendering the 3D scenes. Clay animation, stop motion animation, puppet animation are several other techniques.

Animation softwares and career
In 1937, Walt Disney produced the first full length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Animation requires people skilled in different arts like drawing to produce wonderful images, huge and endless imagination and creative designing, planning the scene, adding sound track and giving special effects. There are several latest fantastic tools for creating the animation. Commonly used one are Macromedia flash, fireworks, Adobe creative suit, photoshop, Anime studio pro, Maya, 3D Studio from Autodesk, and many more. Animation courses are given in several specialized arts and animations colleges worldwide. A student from these universities will have the potential for a career in the dynamic fields of web design, animation movie making, video game art, advertising and graphic design.

Animation applications
Sultan: The Warrior is a forthcoming animated Indian film which is to be released in early 2009 worldwide. The main character is an animated version of super star Rajinikanth (A prominent actor in Indian filim industry) and will also be voiced by him, has big expectations by his fans. Animation is not only used for entertainment. It is also used extensively in marketing, used to present meteorological data, medical imaging, in architecture industry to create models of proposed buildings, in engineering to design new devices and vehicles.

Bluetooth technology - How does Bluetooth work?

Bluetooth technology replaces cable technology literally. Bluetooth technology got its unusual name in honor of Harald Blatand (Bluetooth in English), king of Denmark in the mid-tenth century. Bluetooth is a wireless protocol. It utilizes short range communication technology. It facilitates data transmission over short distances(10 to 100 meters) from fixed as well as mobile services. The reason behind the development of Bluetooth technology was the creation of a single digital wireless protocol, capable of connecting multiple devices and overcoming issues arising from synchronization of these devices. Due to advancement of science and technology, everyday some new product is being invented.

Bluetooth technology establishes connectivity between these products, in a simple way. By using Bluetooth technology and connecting various devices like telephones, laptops, personal computers, mobile phones, printers, PDAs, headset, video games consoles and digital cameras information is exchanged between them. Just like a faithful servant, Bluetooth technology organizes our activities in such a way that many of our jobs can be controlled and synchronized easily. With Bluetooth wireless technology, small transceiver modules are built into a very wide range of products, allowing quick and secure transmission of data as well as voice within a given radius(10 to 100 meters range). Bluetooth technology can be used at low cost and with low power. Bluetooth modules can be either built into electronic devices or used as an adapter. For those who handle any electronic device, Bluetooth technology is really a boon.

Bluetooth technology is useful to man in his day to day work. Bluetooth technology uses chips in freight containers to identify cargo when a lorry drives into a storage depot, or a headset that communicates with a mobile phone in pocket, or in any other place, refrigerator communicating with your Bluetooth-enabled computer, informing it that food supply is low, and to inform the retailer over the internet or adjust cooling etc. Using bluetooth technology, we can use cellular phones, pagers, and personal digital assistants as three-in-one phone that can double as a portable phone at home or in the office. The synchronization of information in a desktop or notebook computer and initiation of sending or receiving of a fax can be handled well using Bluetooth technology.

Many people predicted that there will be vast development in the field of Bluetooth technology and so, they started making huge investments, in this field. Making any change is very easy but showing improvement is very difficult. It is just the beginning of a new era. Let us look out for more innovations in Bluetooth in the future.

About DSL Connections

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a family of all-digital, high-speed lines that use your normal phone wires with special modems on either end. Most DSL lines are actually ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line). ADSL is optimized for the way many people use the Internet: more downloads than uploads. The line is asymmetric, because it has more capacity for data received by your computer (such as graphics, video, audio, and software upgrades) than for data that you send (such as e-mail and browser commands).

About Dial-Up Connections

A dial-up connection to the Internet works over an ordinary phone line. Dial-up connections use the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and are also called PPP accounts. Early dial-up connections used older protocols (SLIP and CSLIP), but these protocols are no longer used.
To use a dial-up account, you need a modem. (To distinguish dial-up modems from newer, high-speed modems, they are also called analog modems or dial-up modems.) Most computers come with an internal modem-eheck the back of the computer for a phone jack (RJ-ll jack). Most ISPs support modems at speeds of 28.8 kilobits per second (Kbps) and 56 Kbps. You connect only when you want to use Internet services and disconnect (hang up) when you are done.

To connect, you need a PPP-compatible communications program, such as Dial-Up Networking, which comes with all versions of Windows since Windows 95. This program dials the phone by using your modem, connects to your ISP, logs into your account by using your user name and password, and then establishes a PPP connection, thus connecting your computer to the Internet. While connected, you can use a variety of programs to read your e-mail, browse the Web, and access other information from the Internet. When you are done, you use your communications program to disconnect from your Internet account.

Humor for Kids and Grown Ups

What is the most slippery country in the world?
Greece
What is the best hand to write with?
Neither - it's best to write with a pen
What kind of fish can't swim?
Dead ones
What sort of animal is a slug?
A snail with a housing problem
If two's company and three a crowd, what are four and five?
Nine PUNS

The pharaohs of Egypt worked out the first pyramid scheme.
A man rushed into a busy doctor's office and shouted "Doctor! I thinkI'm shrinking!!" The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle down.You'll just have to be a little patient."
High jumpers do well at the Olympics because it's always on a leap year.
I like European food so I decided to Russia over there because I wasHungary. After Czech'ing the menu I ordered Turkey. When I wasfinnished and told the waiter "Spain good but there is Norway I couldeat another bite." (Mike Bull)
California is the land of earthquakes and suntans, in short, shake andbake.
MISSOURI asked me to borrow MISSISSIPPI's NEW JERSEY. I said "I don'tknow, ALASKA."

A husband and his wife had an appointment with their eye doctor. Whenthey arrived at his new office it was obvious that he was still in theprocess of moving in. A large picture of a very pretty woman wasconspicuously displayed in the reception room. The husband pointed tothe picture and asked the doctor, "Is that your wife?" He repliedwith, "No, that's her picture."

Now, the world of humans is rushing towards the era of robots. The mystery behind the curtain has revealed. The mystery of robot world.

It has taken thousands of years for humans to embark the show of its amazing astuteness. With the help of this special talent humans are about to become father of robots.

There are myriad opinions on robot world. However, these opinions are merely assumptions. One person says robots obsolete whereas the other one says, robots should be shunned.We all are aware; robots are designed in order to help us. We want them imprudent and innocuous or else they may afterwards rule over us.

It seems quiet simple to design harmless robots, but is difficult.Humans have a habit of ameliorating his inventions. This same thing is going to happen with robots and who knows on which road robots will walk. So, basically scientists are between the devil and the deep blue sea.Scientists believe that this kind of technical revolution might lead into some bad effects.With the introduction of robots, our society will be intricate. Everything, living or non- living, will be on the verge in turning into incomprehensible. In addition to this, the influence of robots is going to be easily detectable and vicious.

It is true somehow, if robots will be designed in a very superior way then, there will be a chance of them to be virulent and vindictive.So, without knowing what robots are going to be, people are totally crazy about them. In fact some people have started collecting money in order to buy robots in the future. Considering humans overenthusiastic nature, I would affirm, whether the robots will be liked or disliked but, for sure, they will be glorified.