So as the end of the year approaches, I have come to the realization that, I'm about to lose access to a lot of my files. I'm talking files from up to 7 years ago, they're all going to disappear in a puff of smoke unless I transfer them. This is because I'm gonna be kicked out of schoology, my school google drive account, and possibly even my laptop because it is getting old and I'll probably get a new one before college. Soooo, this means it's time to transfer files, and part one of that is finding old work from schoology and putting it on my personal google drive or a flash drive, so I decided I'd share some of that work from my first Sci-Vis class with you here. That's really all I have to say about transferring files, here's some of my old work: I think it's pretty nice holding on to old artwork so that you can see how far you've improved. I won't save every single piece of art from schoology, but I'll save a few like these so that I can remember where I started, and how quickly I can grow when I set out to learn new skills. Hopefully I'll have enough storage for all of these files.
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For the past few weeks in class, we've been studying the ways scientific visualization is used in the real world, as well as how it has advanced over time. Since this class tends to try to revolve around the gaming side of things because it will lead into Game Design later on, our project for this unit involved creating different maps for video games. Overall, I learned a lot about scientific visualization.
We were assigned to create timelines containing major events of scientific visual advancements. It seemed that most of the advancements were useful for medical purposes, education, and entertainment, although there are many other fields they could pertain to. Things such as the x-ray, microscope, and MRI have all been incredibly important to further understanding of what causes disease, and locating problems in the human body. Computers have been helpful all around, allowing for storage and organization of massive amounts of data along with programming abilities. Then there are things such as television and games. While they all do have practical uses (spreading information,educational purposes, etc.) their main function in today's society is entertainment. Our project was to create four different kinds of maps for a video game. I chose Bubble Bobble, and it was interesting to see how you can lay things out in maps. It makes everything seem much more simple when you examine each layer of the game on a separate map. While we don't necessarily always consider maps a huge advancement, they are very useful tools that anyone can take advantage of. We use many of the major inventions mentioned today, even in school, such as the television, microscope, computers, and writing. What is probably the most important effect of scientific visualization is how well it can spread information. The phrase "A picture is worth a thousand words," seems very true when you look at all of the achievements. Being able to watch news stories unfold, simulations of things that you wouldn't be able to see otherwise, and being able to send images in an instant are all things made possible through the evolution of visualization. We typically don't appreciate these kinds of things as much as we should, but if you look at how visualization has changed over time, you can see how much it has grown recently. Written language, photography, and computers are three of the most important things that we have because of advancements in scientific visualization. Written language, while being one of the earliest advancements besides cave drawings, is also one of the most important. Writing things down allowed for the transfer of greater amounts of knowledge between one generation to the next. Being able to record things sped up the process of learning for the next people to come, because they could learn from what they read, and not have to start all over again. As languages became more standardized, and most languages adopted the same set of letters, information could travel between people much more easily than before. It also allowed for less ambiguity in what someone had said. Law codes could be written and hung in the middle of town, and no one could just decide to change the laws as they pleased. Photography is very important as well because it allowed people to see things as they really looked without being in that location at that time. Whether or not you were a good artist, you could communicate through images. People from all across the world were able to see things that they hadn't seen before, and people no longer had to rely on sketches and descriptions. Computers are incredibly powerful today. With access to the internet, people can find more information faster than ever. Computers themselves though were extremely useful even before the internet in order to compute large amounts of data with fewer errors, and to program different things. With all of the different programs on computers today, it is possible to do all sorts of things like read books, edit pictures, create movies, and all kinds of other things. While scientific visualization is often taken for granted nowadays, it has come a long way, and made us much more capable of doing incredible things. |
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