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12/09/2005

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___ is the ability to fill a venue with sound
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Coverage
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__ is the ability to amplify the sound to fill the venue, with out distortion or feedback
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Gain
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The person responsible for mixing sound that the audience hears, working from a console in the middle of the audience is
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House Engineer
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The person responsible for mixing the sound the artist will hear
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Monitor Engineer
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Person responsible for entire movement of equipment and crew in regards to performance area
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stage manager
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This person hangs points from which equipment will be hung
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Rigger
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this person positions instuments on stage, as well as tunes them and prepares them for use
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Back Line Technician
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He operates the special effects that require flames, fireworks etc..
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Pyrotechnician
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This person manages the local union crew
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steward
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He suprivises the crew and equipment during set up and tear down of a show
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Production Manager
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this person books the show venues and advertising for the upcomng performances
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Promoter
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A DMX 512 is used for
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distrbuting digital audio
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They may be hired to crwate a film or may find the script and bring it to a production company for funding
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Producer
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__ takes the producers vision of the script and translates it into film through actors and sets
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Director
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Captures the actuall film footage, and is in charge of the film crew
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DP Director of Photography
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The __ makes sure the lighting is correct for the shots of the actors and sets
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Lighting Director
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Head of art dept. is responsible for the visual apperance of the set
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Production Designer
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Supervises actuall constuction of the set
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Art Director
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The chief electrician
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Gaffer
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The Gaffer's #1 assistant
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Best boy electric
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The Genoral Laborer on the set
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Grip
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The head Grip is called the?
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Key Grip
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The Electrical laborer on set
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Electric Utility
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Bulit of all sets prior to construction of the final sets
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Production Minatures
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Models built for use in actuall filming
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Exhibition Miniatures
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___ sets the mood, evokes emotion tells time and can enhance the subject
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Lighting
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The ___ light establishes dirctionality and source of motivation 4 the scene
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Key Light
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___ light is used to create desirable lighting on the actors face
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Fill Light
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Seperates actor from background
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back light
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standard frame rate for motion picture
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24 fps
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The ___ gathers light and projects images on film gate for exposure
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Lens
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the distance from the center of the lens to the exposing film at the film plane
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Focal length
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___ is the measurment how how much light is allowed through the lens
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F-Stop... Fuckin Stop
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Device that controls amount of light through a lens
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Iris
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A more precise F-Stop measurment, measured through each individual lens
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T-stop
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A more precise F-Stop measurment, measured through each individual lens
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T-stop
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Both figuritivly and literally the focal points of the motion picture cameras mechanical operations
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Film Gate
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The width of the film stock in use, cameras only work with one format
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Film Format
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Films top layer, which captures light is called
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Emulsion
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Number that describes how sensitive a film stock is to light
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Film Speed
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Film gets captured onto video through a process called
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Telecine
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Unusable audio or dialouge is replaced with a process called
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ADR Automated Dialouge Replacement
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Process of recording refereed to as "walking" or "shooting"
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Foley
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___ provides the sound of a films enviroment
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Ambiance/Backgrounds
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___ is the process of taking the assembled material from each of the sound elements and synching them to the picture
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Sound Editing
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The purpose of ___ is too make sure the elements remain constant and consistant from shot to shot
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Continuity
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Pipelines which data travels through either physical or made of energy
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Line mediums
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measurment of how much data can travel through a line medium in a certain time frame
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Throughput
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The frequency range from highest to lowest, passed through a component or circuit
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Bandwidth
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made of 4-3000 pairs twisted into 1 cable
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twisted cable
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can be used w. frequency's up to 10,000 MHz, with transfer rate of 10Mbps
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Coaxial Cable
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__ cable is realtivily inexpensive compared to metallic cables of the same capacity
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Fiber-optic
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1991, the first user friendly interface for the internet was called?
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Gopher
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To make the nets even eaiser to use, a new protocal was proposed for information distribution
Definition
the world wide web WWW.
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This lan system allows for multiple communication signal to travel through 1 channel by using packets of data
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Ethernet
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a ___ connection provides 24 channels at 64 Kbps, totaling a rate of 1.563 Mbps
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T1
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2 basic types of this line medium, symmetric and asymmetric
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DSL
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Much wider bandwidth than phone lines, with speeds up to 2 Mbps
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Cable
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in 1970 Bell labs created the 1st computer code for UNIX called
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B
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Dennis Ritchie made the code we used today for computers
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C
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A ___ image is set at a fixed resoulution making it difficult to resize without distortion
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Bitmapped
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A __ Image is a mathematical equation that can be resized and manipulated with out distortion
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Object-Oriented
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is a video compression that is used to reduce the video file 1/140th of its original size
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MPEG-1
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A sound file created by microsoft and is windows standard sound format
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.WAV
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___ is a subset of RT3D that provides an IMMERSIVE experience in which the used can participate
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Virtual Reality
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helmet like devices with a small computer monitor for each eye
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Head Mounted Displays
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___ have different reflective properties that we can use to give a realistic apperance to the object in regards to lighting
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Material Maps
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2D images placed on a modelto give it color, and it's "look"
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Texture
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these create the look of real texture on the model
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Bump Maps
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What controls the voltage going to the lights
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Dimmer
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What method of animating allows us to record an actors performance
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Motion Capture
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What was the first film to have computer generated images
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Westwood-1973
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What do we define as the computer's toolbox
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O.S. operating system
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What year was the great crash in the video game industry
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1983
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what electronic component reduces the amount of voltage flowing through a circuit
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a Resistor
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what company invented the condensor microphone
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Bell Labs
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What programming language is used to control the lights
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DMX
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what is the main source of of motivating light in a scene
Definition
key light
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a films format refers to what?
Definition
width of the film
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what are the basic parts of a design document
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internal, and external
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what are the two companies involved in making a game
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Publisher and Devolper
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What was the first film to incorperate CGI into the enviroment along with the actors
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Tron-1982-Disney
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What are the 4 parts too a game loop in order
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Handles windows messages, Get input, process data, render
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the number that describes the width of an image compared to its height
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aspect ratio
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what are the three elements of scene building
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composition, camera set-up, lighting
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what is the backbone of computerized editing
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SMPTE time code
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what indivdual runs the lighting at a concert
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lighting director
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what is the natural bending of light through different mediums
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Refraction
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A moving storyboard is known as what
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animatic
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the digital audio standard CD is what color book
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red
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electomagnetic energy travels how fast
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186,000 miles per second
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what are the 6 degrees of freedom
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pitch, yaw, roll
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the CD roms book color
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yellow
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what type of miniature is used in actual filming
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exhibition miniature
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Electromotive force is measured in what
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Voltz
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Who created the first video game
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Willaim Higginbotham (table tennis for two)
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2 types of moving lights are
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yoke (head) and mirror
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what type of computer modeling uses curved lines
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NURBS
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what are the 2 studies of motion
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kinematics and kinesiology
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the range of frequency that can pass through a circuit
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bandwidth
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on a console what contains the channel and monitor path
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I/O's input output
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whats the least amount of sides a polygon can have
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3
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who invented the flat disc format
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Neil Berliner 1887
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what section of design doc outline steps the player has to take to to get to the next level
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game progression
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what method of animating is hwere we set positions for objects and allow them to INTERPOLATE
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key framing
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What did Neipce invent
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Heliograph
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the number of pixels that can be rendered per second is called
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fill rate
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what conrols the motherboard functions
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chipset
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what allows for a computer to represent english characters in number format
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ASCII
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what is commonly used form of compression for still pics
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JPEG
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what was the 1st video game to use 3D polygon models
Definition
I-Robot (atari 1983)
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what year did RCA introduce the 33 1/2 rpm flat disc
Definition
1931
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