High-Tech Reality
When is the perfect animated creature too good to be true?
Use your own cartoon movie scene to discover that despite its many advantages, computer technology cannot duplicate the natural imperfections and differences in living things.
Who needs circuits more - a movie cowboy or a computer animator?
Make a special effect with a simple circuit and learn that it includes a closed patch, a switch, a load, and an energy source.
When is purple not purple?
Create a "sunset" with milk dripped into water and observe how the color we perceive objects to be changes as blue light scatters more than red at sunset.
How do puppets talk to computers?
Experiment with a homemade special effects puppet linked to an imaginary computer to see how technology allows new forms of image generation.