Friday, March 31, 2017

Entry 7 - Computer Generated Imagery

CGI:

The definition of art can range very widely. In my perspective art is about capturing the abstractness of the human mind. Merriam Webster defines art as, “The conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects”. Broadly put, art is the production of some type of work that contains some sort of aesthetic. The means of how these images are created can vary widely but as of now the types of objects or images I am talking about are computer generated images (CGI). These are objects that are modeled in order to be animated commonly used in movies but are not specific to just motion pictures.

dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-motion-capture .gif

Relevance to Computer Science:

Computer Generated Images are inherently related to computer science. The means of making a model become a realistic or abstract image is all a result of a CGI program. This programs allows one to have almost unlimited in designing an object or image. CGI is not only used for movies. Like movies, video games require images that constantly generate to provide the graphical interface for the user. There are common medical applications like pulmonary tests where the patient is subject to x-rays and a computer generates an image of the internals of the subject. Another common use of CGI could be for educational purposes. Perhaps modeling a geometrical object or a microscopic section of an animal for a textbook. The relationship of CGI to computer science is obvious but the use of such programs to generate images is far more frequent and useful than we may have thought.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery

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