Finishing Images
CS 110
Fall 2005
Reading Material
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Chapter 3 and Chapter 4
Questions
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Will digital cameras match quality of
film cameras?
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Optical vs. digital zoom.
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Costs of RAM vs. disks
Qualities of digital cameras
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Resolution
Time to shoot
Bit depth
Optical zoom
Size
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What is lost as camera gets smaller?
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Loss of digital images
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CDs are ephemeral (20 years)
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Protection?
Digital to Digital
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Analog world to…
Digital pixels…
Digital pixels to…
LCD pixels in a projector…
To photo paper
Digital movie theaters are in our near
future
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Lossy compression
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Megapixel
Who Needs a Camera?
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Create a virtual world with virtual
camera
Synthesizing Images
Synthesizing Images
Synthesizing Images
Shenchang Eric Chang et al., Cornell 1988
Synthesizing Images
H. Jensen
graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/
images/subsurf.html
Synthesizing Images
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http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/ani
mations/jensenthe_light_of_mies_small.avi
Henrik Wann Jensen
Validation
Measured
Simulated
Difference
Rendering with Natural Light
http://www.debevec.org/Movies/debevec-rnl.mov
Fiat Lux
http://www.debevec.org/Movies/debevec-fiatlux-wide.mov
Tour Into the Picture
Animation by Samir Roy (UVa CS ’03)
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs110/Brogan/Lectures/rotunda.divx.avi
Picasa Demo
www.picasa.com
Speech to Text
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Demo of Microsoft’s speech to text
• Start Microsoft Word
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Under “Tools” click the the “Speech” option
Text to Speech
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Demo of Microsoft’s Text to Speech
• http://www.gmayor.com/word_text_to_
speech.htm
• http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macr
o.htm
Next Assignment
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Build a more complicated web page
• Email link
• Audio
• Horizontal bar
• Text centering and formatting
• Hyperlinks
• “List” environment
Audio
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Recording on PC
Finding files online
Inserting Audio
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http://www.worldvoices.com/resources/addaud.html