Blog 2: Response to the Kidd, Hickey and Weschler articles

1: Article Kidd The Cheese Monkeys Excerpt 

After reading this article, I find this is really an amazing article. The article analysis some phenomenon about “from left to right”, “from top to bottom”, “big and small”, and the relationship between you and your enemy. I really agree the point that our enemies are sometimes will become the motion that makes us better. The article talks about the big and small are relatively. You are really a big thing to an ant, however to the whole world, you are just an ant.

I think there is some problem about talking about why from left to right. I will give some examples. In ancient China, people are usually write words from right to left. Japanese nowadays are still used to writing from right to left.

2: Hickey The Heresy of Zone Defense

This article talks about the rules about the basketball games. I agree the point that the rules should be changed because of the different ages. Different ages will cause different notions. Just like the author talks in article, dripping paint was very free when the author was young. However, later, “Pollock's joyous permission had been translated into a prohibitive”. Just like the rules of playing basketball, they are always changing.

Some of basic rules I think should not be changed in my opinion. No matter how many ages past, people should always own a kindness heart and never attempt to hurt anyone. This should always be the never change rule.

 

3: Weschler Uncanny Valley

After reading this article, I was amazed by our faces. We can use 44 facial muscles to produce 5,000 different expressions! This is really an interesting fact, isn’t it? This article talks about the problem of making the great animation nowadays. The only problem is how to produce the better details to make the animation more realistic. I agree the better animation have more details and less saw teeth. I compare the new computer games and some old computer games, and I can easily to find newer computer games’ picture has less saw teeth and pictures are look more natural.

In the article, the author said that the better details in animation need the better computer hardware. I think the computer hardware developing speed is really fast! For example, 2 years ago, Intel i5 dual-core CPU chips were almost the best chips on computers, however, the Intel i7 four-core CPU is really becoming a popular chip!

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