tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72423058300738758092024-02-08T03:16:18.129-08:00SST-NTU Flagship Programme 2012 Digital PaintingDigital Painting - Ng CarvenNg Carvenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01538522272122250412noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242305830073875809.post-29869435803032387882012-06-05T07:41:00.000-07:002012-06-05T07:41:05.697-07:00Photoshop lessons [Day 2]<br />
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<b>How can what you learnt today, be applied in real life?</b></div>
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The techniques and the methods to edit pictures i learnt in the photoshop lessons today would benefit me in a way that i can use it for my future projects. Such as projects which require posters, or pictures which i cannot find. I can then use photoshop to piece together the information i have in a neater, and nicer format. </div>Ng Carvenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01538522272122250412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242305830073875809.post-12764762567062954002012-06-04T02:26:00.000-07:002012-06-04T02:26:06.395-07:00Plenary sessions [Day 1]<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> 1. Plenary session by Prof Kerry Sieh was regarding Earthquake research on the coral reefs of Sumatra.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- I learnt that sedimentology is a study of sediments in the earth. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- The layers in the earth determine the age and whether they are from tsunamis. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- The study of earthquakes and tsunamis is basically through sedimentology and physics. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- The use of the GPS can not only help a driver navigate him or herself, it can also help measure tectonic deformation. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Corals can measure uplift and subsidence. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Geologists can also use ancient corals and SuGAr to make forecasts. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Radiometric dating helps find out the age of a coral. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Other than curiosity, there are good reasons to study geo-hazards such as earthquakes, making forecasts is based on physics (hydrodynamics) and engineering. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Sumatra plate is also sinking due to the oceanic-continental plate convergence between the Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian (Sunda) plate.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 2. IT for Animation by Prof Seah Hock Soon was basically focusing on talking about Animation, Science and Technology, Information Technology and Innovation.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>- </i>There are many forms of animation, such as stop motion, 2D animation and 3D animation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Mathematics such as Geometric modelling, Calculus and the laws of Physics is used in the process of making an animation.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- The challenges of 2D animations are, beautiful art form, skilled artists, it is labour intensive and the budget pressure.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Everybody can be an inventor, Keep it simple and perfect it later, Take the first step, start something big. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i> 3. Innovative breakthroughs in Nano-Science and Nano-Technology by Prof Ma Jan talked about the uses of nano technology, such as killing bacteria using nanotechnology, and nano cell treatment for freckles.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- smaller size for a fixed volume = Larger surface area.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- “ Theres plenty of room at the bottom. “ </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- “ Materials with ten times the strength but only a small fraction of the weight. “ is know as Carbon Nano tube (CNT)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- “Shrinking all the information housed at the library of congress into a device the size of a sugar cube.” is known as quantum dots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-“ Detecting cancerous tumours when they are only a few cells in size. ” is known as nano particles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(b) New questions...</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New questions I have about the topic are...</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- How can we be more prepared for the tsunamis or earthquakes using our current technology?</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- How do we operate the animation software that the professor came up with?</span></span></div>Ng Carvenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01538522272122250412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242305830073875809.post-45748244259422881112012-06-03T08:51:00.000-07:002012-06-03T08:51:31.508-07:00Pre-camp reflections<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What interests you about this project?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This project interested me because of<b> </b>the software it is using. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What do you want to learn by doing this project?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want to learn how to use photoshop to edit photos because it would help me in my future presentations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What questions do you have about this project? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Questions i have about this project is whether we would take a long time to grasp the techniques of using this software. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What do you want to <i>personally </i>want to have achieved by the end of this project?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I personally want to achieve more knowledge about operating photoshop after this project because this is a new software that i will be learning how to use, and i also want to learn more about digital painting. </span></div>
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