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NSO 2008 > Proseminars > Arts & Entertainment
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Digital Special Effects for Movies
Norm Badler, Professor, CIS
Contemporary motion pictures often use a wide range of digital techniques for special effects to create or recreate an illusion of reality. These techniques, based on computer graphics principles, can be seamlessly integrated with live-action and location shots. We will discuss various techniques, such as compositing, modeling, virtual sets, face animation, virtual doubles, and crowd synthesis to see how computation and computer graphics, together with skilled animators, can work visual wonders.
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Towne Building, Room 303 |
| Course: |
PROS 100-102 |
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1-3 p.m. |
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History and Literature in Psalm 29
Michael Carasik, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biblical Hebrew
The Bible is most often taught as a guide to religious belief -- but it is also both a work of literature and a window into the ancient world. This proseminar will look at Psalm 29 as a literary creation, one that offers us a tantalizing glimpse of ancient Israel and, further back, the lost city of Ugarit.
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Houston Hall, Class of '47 Room |
| Course: |
PROS 100-204 |
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2-4 p.m. |
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John Muir's Wilderness Spirit
Frank Welsh, Professor of Neurosurgery
Wilderness experiences are giving way to civilized life. What, if anything, are we losing? John Muir, as well as anyone, put into words his feelings of transcendence when he experienced wild nature. In this proseminar we will explore passages from the writings of John Muir to better understand the spiritual values he derived from nature and to ask whether these values may have benefits in our present life.
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Williams Hall, Room 317 |
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PROS 100-403 |
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4-6 p.m. |
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Music and Mirth: Songs of the University of Pennsylvania
Kushol Gupta, Assistant Director, Penn Band
Learn about the University of Pennsylvania's student traditions and the colorful history behind its canon of songs. Students will learn about the song "Drink a Highball," the origins of the Toast tradition, the ill-fated song "Hang Jeff Davis," and other traditions that are uniquely Red and Blue.
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Platt House, Room 182 (3702 Spruce St.) |
| Course: |
PROS 100-404 |
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2-4 p.m. |
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