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World War One: Battle of Somme’s Influence of further developments in Weaponry and Tactics Contents: Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Weapons Used in The Battle of the Somme.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Strategies used in the Battle of the Somme………………….………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 How the Battle of the Somme influenced World War 2………………………………………………………………………………………… 4…

Special effects are illusions created for movies and television by props, camerawork, or computer graphics. Celluloid animation, scale modeling, claymation, digital compositing, animatronics, use of prosthetic makeup, morphing, and modern computer-generated or computer graphics imagery are just some techniques that are widely used for creating incredible special effects. (“Film Milestones in Visual/Special…

In order to create useable and target group oriented user interfaces, it is of utmost importance to evaluate design decisions. Interactive prototyping tools are a way to evaluate the interaction between different views of a user interface. Such tools are available for all platforms and with different feature sets. In the following, we discuss two of them: Balsamiq Mockups (or Balsamiq for short) and POP. While Balsamiq is available for desktop computers (with a desktop-optimised web version…

trivial tasks like organizing assets to substantial technology-based project like building a full function website from scratch. I got started my job with simple static websites, and then began to maintain and improve websites built on different Web Content Management Systems, and tried to create brand new websites using CMSs later. Occasionally I also needed to help on some less-technical jobs between projects. Overall, those main projects I worked on were fulfilling and meaningful. PRAGMA…

satellite orbits through the peaceful space it contrasts with a heavy thunderstorm on Earth. In the middle of the sea a fisherman is confronted by a giant shadow with two eyes. The Iron Giant by Warner Brothers is first introduced with a computer generated satellite animation. Then as it moves away the Earth is shown drawn in a traditional animation. It is different from the satellite because the clouds move in a way that does not seem mechanical.Like the introduction, the 2D and 3D animation…

The Iron Giant – A point of reference in the history of animation In late 1996, Brad Bird, an American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor, using Ted Hughes book published in 1968, “The Iron Giant”, as a starting point, pitched his ideas to the famous entertainment company Warner Bros. At that time, Bird was working for Tuner Feature Animation, a multimedia company that merged with Warner Bros. after being purchased in 1996 by Time Warner, Warner Bros parent…

Eadweard Muybridge lived from 1830 to 1904 and gained worldwide recognition for photographing animal and human movement. He was hired by railroad baron Leland Stanford in 1872 and used photography to prove that there was a moment in a horse’s gallop when all four hooves were off the ground at once. Much of his later career was spent at the University of Pennsylvania, producing thousands of images that capture progressive movements within fractions of a second. Muybridge made these discoveries at…

I am Victoria Bowie and I am on my way to accomplishing a bachelorette in User Experience Design at Lesley University. From a tender age, I have always been fascinated with technology and my mind would fill up with thoughts on how I could help society for the greater good of mankind. Daydreaming about how I can make a change in the world and actions that I have made to help others has been happening since my younger days, even up till now. I was fixing computers at the age of eleven and creating…

Ceremonial Bronze Gui This is a ceremonial bronze gui that was used in the late 11th and early 10th century, during the Zhou dynasty. It is currently in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The image is a bronze gui. A gui is a bowl that was used to hold offerings. The bowl-shaped item has 2 handles on either side which sits on a box like stand. The majority of the gui is engraved with different carvings. The gui is mainly a dark green/grey colour. The sculpture is symmetrical because all…

impact on the sufferer system. Meterpreter also makes use of a centralized communication system. (Offensivesecurity.com). Unlike other penetration testing tools like core impact, Metasploit Framework continues to be the free and open source, notwithstanding being acquired by Rapid7. The Express versions of Nexpose and Metasploit start at $2,000 and $5,000, respectively, with the full-featured Pro version starting at $15,000 per year. The price and comprehensive analysis of the Metasploit…