NMIX 2020 1nd Edition Lecture 4Outline of Last Lecture I. Elder VenturesII. New Relationship with Informationa. Social Mediab. Mobile Mediac. GamingOutline of Current Lecture I. Moving Image New Mediaa. Nobody invents new mediaII. Your Eyesa. Saccadic movements – your eyes are constantly movingb. Without movement, rods & cones become saturated & cease to functionc. If there’s constant movement, why don’t we see a blur?i. The brain is wired to prevent thisd. Vision is persistentIII. Five things needed for moving imagea. Persistence of visionb. Photographyc. Motion picture camerad. Film e. ProjectionIV. Illusion of movement creditsa. J.M. i. Anonymous contributor that wrote a short observation in 1820b. Peter Mark Rogeti. "Explanation of an Optical Deception in the Appearance of the Spokes of a Wheel Seen Through Vertical Apertures" (1824) c. Dr. John Parisi. Thaumatrope: toy that flipped two images repeatedly to create one (1824)d. Joseph Plateaui. Phenakistiscope: creating the illusion of motion using a spinning disk (1832)e. George Horner These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.i. Zoetrope: (1834)f. Emil Reynaudi. Praxinoscope (1877)V. Photographya. Pictures can’t capture motionb. Muybridge’s Beti. Prove if all 4 legs of a horse leave the ground when runningii. Answered with no after investigation using 24 camerasVI. Thomas Edisona. Inventor & businessmanVII. Radioa. Could send information via wavesb. Audio radio wasn’t sending soundc. Sending electricityd. Electricity built sounde. Through speakers & microphonesf. Break sound into sequence of electricityg. Needed some way to break down imageVIII. Light to electricitya. Working on transcontinental cablei. resistance of selenium rodsii. convert light to electricityb. Light modulates electricityIX. Early Picturesa. Photoelectric cellsb. Camera – selenium cellsc. Receiver – light bulbsd. Bank of lightse. Couldn’t movef. A lot of wiresi. Not for radioX. Televisiona. Full-fledged television presented at 1939 World’s Fairb. Would TV make it?i. •Tough to makeii. •Makeupiii. •Lightsc. •Setsi. •Expensiveii. •Bulkyiii. •Lack of standardsiv. •Dangerous?v. •Frequency spaced. TV was succcesful until this yearXI. Digital TVa. No longer analogi. Better resolutionii. A necessary step to Higher Definitioniii. But in itself isn’t HDb. Better Soundi. Dolby 5.1XII. YouTubea. Feb. 15, 2005i. 3 PayPal employeesii. Way to share video1. Flickr for videob. May 2005i. Site went livec. August 2005i. FlashPlayer 8 -- Macromediaii. High Qualityiii. Small filesiv. Quick downloadsv. No external playerd. Oct 9, 2006i. Google buys itii. $1.65B in stock1. Six times economy of Micronesiae. What did they buy?i. 67 employeesii. A video
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