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Khan Academy: Multiple Spring Mass System
This video [3:37] lesson focuses on adding another spring and mass to our system to simulate curly hair.
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Khan Academy: Support Springs
This video [1:43] lesson explores a method to develop curly looking hair using support springs.
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Khan Academy: Stiffness and Damping
In this video [2:01] lesson students will learn how to add spring stiffness and damping for controlling hair simulation.
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Khan Academy: Hair Simulation Overview
In this video [2:06] a Pixar engineer discusses how they simulated Merida's curly hair using the computer in the movie "Brave." This serves as an introduction to topic of hair simulation.
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Khan Academy: Spring Mass System
This video [3:06] lesson explores how we can use springs to represent hair.
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Khan Academy: Getting to Know Hayley Iben
This video [4:08] is an interview with Hayley Iben, computer programmer at Pixar who designed some hair simulations. Find out more about Hayley's background and the work she is doing.
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Khan Academy: Case Study: The Good Dinosaur
In this video [4:36] students will find out how hair simulation tools were used in the Pixar film "The Good Dinosaur."
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Khan Academy: Introduction to Parabolic Arcs
This video [1:14] lesson is an introduction to Parabolic Arcs. What do parabolic arcs have to do with blades of grass?
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Khan Academy: Midpoint Formula (Video)
In this video [2:43] lesson, students explore how midpoints are used to describe the "string art construction."
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Khan Academy: String Art (Video)
In this video [2:55] lesson, they talk about some of the ways that math was used to create the forest in Brave. So the question is, how are they going to represent parabolic arcs in a way that artists can deal with, but computers can...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: The Central Processing Unit (Cpu)
Today, we're going to build the ticking heart of every computer - the Central Processing Unit or CPU. The CPU's job is to execute the programs we know and love - you know, like GTA V, Slack... and Power Point. To make our CPU, we'll...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: How Computers Calculate the Alu
Today we're going to talk about a fundamental part of all modern computers. The thing that basically everything else uses - the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (or the ALU). The ALU may not have to most exciting name, but it is the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: Instructions & Programs
Today, we're going to take our first baby steps from hardware into software! Using that CPU we built last episode, we're going to run some instructions and walk you through how a program operates on the machine level. We'll show you how...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: Hackers & Cyber Attacks
Not all hackers are malicious cybercriminals intent on stealing your data (these people are known as Black Hats). There are also White Hats, who hunt for bugs, close security holes, and perform security evaluations for companies. And...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: Graphical User Interfaces
Today, we're going to discuss the critical role graphical user interfaces, or GUIs played in the adoption of computers. Before the mid 1980's the most common way people could interact with their devices was through command line...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: Natural Language Processing
As computers play an increasing role in our daily lives there has been a growing demand for voice user interfaces, but speech is also terribly complicated. Vocabularies are diverse, sentence structures can often dictate the meaning of...