Thesis Extra Credit

Did you know you can experience peripheral vision in a film? To experience this first-hand, visit a cinerama theater near you. You won't regret it!

Cinerama Thesis

Using a clever technology strategy, Cinerama created a unique way for its audience members to view the world by allowing them to feel as if they were actually there, in the footage.

Cinerama Thesis

The creation of Cinerama revolutionized the film and entertainment industry and allowed people to experience the wonders of the world from a whole new perspective.

Cinerama Thesis

Early advertisements of Cinerama highlight the exclusive nature of the entertainment and attempt to instill a cultural appetite for the new experiences offer only by Cinerama.

Cinerama Thesis

The invention of the Cinerama captivated the population of the United States, as it was a technology that gave the world the opportunity to see a form of Cinema that they never had seen before.


Megan Rust
AMS 30
Section 2

Cinerama Thesis

This ad is converting the impact that Cinerama had on the public in that it developed new technology and gave people the opportunity to see the world of cinema through a new, revolutionary, peripheral lens.

Neera Gujral
Sydney La Claire
Vergil Shu

Cinerama Thesis

Fred Waller revolutionized technology beyond movie theaters by developing a system of virtual reality that lead to simulations like the Waller Gunnery Trainer and, most notably, Cinerama.

Alex Shaffer
Kellie Lien
Janzen Lee
Robert Klainark
AMS 30 A04

Cinerama Thesis

Cinerama is the most technologically advanced film of its time because it uses triple screen projection, it immerses peripheral vision, and it is only featured in two theaters in the entire world.

Julissa Riberal
Ashley Beyer
Sabrina Gomez
Katie Stephens
Section 04

Make up assignment 2/9

In the first article, It talks all about the background to google maps and how mapping software will always continue to grow. There is always one more thing you can add to make the application more efficient and easier to work with. 

For the second article it talks about how google maps has progressed over the years and the mapping technology improved. It explained how much "behind the scenes" work went into building google maps. This constant improvement of google maps really opened up the doors to so many things that a person could do without stress or confusion. It also discusses google maps's competitors and how everyone is trying to make the map more accurate or more friendly to use. 

In the third article "Seven Wonders of the World to Explore on Google Street View", It talks about how google has mapped out virtually these "wonders" of the world making it accessible to many people. It's a way to experience something that one may never be able to do.

For the first article, I had never realized how much actually went into a google map. We take having these maps for granted too. I use it so often and never think twice about how speed limit, traffic, ramps or any other things you could encounter on the road was incorporated. It all seems so simple when you don't think about it. 

I thought the quote in the second article where it said, "A map is never finished, there is always more to be done" was really interesting. It also reminded me a lot about what we have been discussing in class and how the continuous growth of maps and landscape in the U.S. kept expanding and giving people a sense of perspective. Our maps will continue to change and more will be added to it. 

For article three I found it really inspiring how google has added these videos. It helps people who would never be able to see these places like climbing El Capitan and give them a sense of what the rest of the world looks like. This shows people how much the world has to offer and lets people understand that the world is so diverse. 

In the video in the article "Seven Wonders of the World", I watched the video of the Galapagos. Its a place that I have always wanted to go and watching this video made me want to visit these islands more. I felt like the video shot and the camera angle made the video so realistic. It was very realistic not only in the way of the angle but also in the way that the video was so "rough" it showed the true Galapagos. Because I feel like sometimes videos or photos of places can hide what one will actually experience. 

Make Up Assignment 2/9

1. Google has taken the layout of the world and digitally transformed it into something useful that people can access easily every day. By compiling all different kinds of data from several different outlets, it has put together a realistic and advanced map that covers over five million miles of the Earth. People from google drove all around the world with cameras on top of their cars to give the maps authentic street view images.

Apps like Google Maps have thoroughly developed to help people with the navigation of different areas. Google Maps appeared on smartphones when the first iPhone came out, transforming the way people used and viewed maps. Since Google Maps first came out as an app, many people have tried to copy the idea and have come up with new apps of their own. 

Google Maps offers street view images of cities and streets and it has also collected views of places cars cannot drive to. It offers beautiful views of places unseen by many. 

2. Although having the street view imaging on maps can be very helpful to see where you are going, it can also be distracting. It is hard to use the street view imaging while driving because it takes the attention away from driving and more on how to get to the place you need to be. 

3. I watched the video about Kenya’s Samburu Park, and I am astounded by how they used camels to record the street views. In the article, they also mentioned that they used the street camera to see a lot of other animals such as elephants. It is amazing that the use of animals can help aid the universe in locational diagnostics. 

Around the World in 80 Days

This past weekend I watched the movie "Around the World in 80 Days" with the one and only Jackie Chan. While watching this movie I got to see a lot of bird's eye view from up above while Jackie Chan was traveling on a balloon. Not too long ago in class we learned about hot hair balloons and how they had and still today impact the way we not only travel, but view the surroundings around us. Although it was not used as a military mode the images from about gave us a good look of the landscape below.

Make Up Assignment

1. Google is definitely known for the accessible information and they use their information in order to create wonderful maps. There maps cover 5 million square miles around the world, which is a significant amount of square mileage. Google came up with the idea of street view, which allows people to drive in cars with cameras on top of the cars so that they can capture images of roads, house, and street signs.

Before there was Google Maps there was the old fashion map quest, then Google changed the game and created the Google maps app that allowed people to use their maps on their smartphones. When apple release the iPhone in 2007, Google released there app as well. Ever since Google came out with there product, they have drew in a many different competitors that are trying to out do Google’s app.

Google map decided to use their street view concept to give people a great view of different parts of the world such as the seven wonders of the world. They documented virtual experiences in places such as NASA, Yosemite, and even the Marseille. People who now don't have to actually go to these places to experience the greatest, they can now just look on Google. around the world.

2. I have mixed emotions about Google’s street view concept. I do not like the fact that people can search my address on Google and get a clear view of what house looks like. It kind of makes me uncomfortable. But I think the concept is good because it allows for people to see street signs and get proper directions and know exactly what in the area of their destination.

3. I thought the video about the walk on Marseille was cool because now I can have that as a idea for when I want to propose to my future wife.

Make-Up Assignment for 2/9

Brian Quintero
TA Alexandra
AMS 030
10 February 2016

Make-Up Assignment for 2/9

1. Provide a brief summary of each of the three links, about a paragraph or so for each.

Link 1: This link did not show up for me. I sent you an email before hand about the issue.
Link 2: The second link Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape, explains that smartphones and computers navigate and plan our journey for us in today's society. Without such technology we are lost and excluded from society. Google Maps became “the de facto between the digital and physical world” not only providing directions, but the signs, building, street, and many other street rules.
Link 3: While reading and watching the videos it helped me understand how maps truly help us discover an area and its surroundings. The videos helped me have a better perspective and view of what maps on IPhones and computers can do.

2. Write a separate paragraph thinking critically on some of the ideas presented in any of the three links - a critical observation, a critique, or a different interpretation you may have.

 I agree with the second link Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape because in today's society technology is so highly advanced that we can ask our IPhone to look up the directions to an address, and in seconds it will provide all the routes with a birds eye view of the landscape.

3. Respond to one of the three YouTube videos included in the "Seven Wonders of the World on Google Street View," writing on your experience, feelings, or observations watching the video.

Watching the Galapagos video surprised me in how advanced our technology of maps has become on Google Maps. Observing its climate, environment, and natural habitat over GoogleMaps was mind-blowing.

Make Up Assignment

1. Article 1: “How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything”

This article discusses how GT (Ground Truth) technology works. Google uses satellite and ground imaging, using Google cars, to piece together their digital maps. Sometimes, they copy street signs from the Google car’s photographs and paste them into the map. Also, when new roads are constructed or rebuilt, the satellites and Google cars detect the changes, allowing map builders to edit the map.

Article 2: “Google maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape”

A decade ago people would use a website called multi map to find directions. The user would type in their desired destination and print out the step-by-step directions. Two Danish brothers teamed up with Google to create an online maps application, which would allow people to scroll, zoom and search. Google maps was officially launched on February 8, 2005. Larry and Sergey came up with an idea to attach a camera to the roof of a car, which lead to the creation of the Google car. In 2007 Google maps was featured as an application on the first-generation Apple iPhone.

Article 3: “Seven wonders of the world to explore on Google Street View”

Jonathan Steele’s team wore mapping cameras to document National Parks, National Trails and coastlines. Google creates virtual experiences for the online viewers, providing them with the opportunity to walk with wild animals in Kenya, climb 3,000 feet in Yosemite, take an evening stroll though Marseille and explore Liwa from a camel’s perspective.

2. I thought that reading about the evolution of Google and their mapping system was interesting and innovative. Google started out as a browsing site and has flourished rapidly over the past decade. I was not aware of Google’s incorporation of the 7 wonders of the world, so that was also interesting. I enjoyed reading these articles.

3. The cinematography from the “Explore Liwa with Google Maps” video looked very professional in comparison to some of the other videos.  

Make-up Assignment 2/9/16

1. Google has used the amazing technological advancements to help mankind in many ways. They’ve put together a single, highly advanced map that covers five million miles of the world. In addition, the images are accurate and realistic because of the camera that were used on vehicles. 

2. Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape.

The Launch of google maps lead digital maps to become mainstream approximately ten years ago today. Google’s goals was to create one map of the entire earth in which a user could browse the entire earth. Google maps finally was featured on the first iPhone in 2007. Eventually, they ran into issues with cars gathering data for them such as address information and wifi networks in foreign countries. The wifi information resulted in a 7 million dollar fine. 

3. It was astonishing for me to see the way that Kenya took advantage of camels to record data and imaging of street views. Street cameras were also used record data on elephants. Over six hundred elephants were recorded. 

Remote Sensing

Learning about remote sensing reminded me of how now drones can be used on freeways and highways in order to ticket people who are speeding. I always see signs when I'm driving on certain highways that say "Speed Enforced by Drones". I also have a friend that was ticketed by a drone one time. It's crazy that remote sensing can be used for so many different purposes like giving people speeding tickets.

Make up assignment 2/9

1. Google has taken the world’s “physical information” and turned it into something useful that people can access every day. By compiling all different kinds of data from several different sources, it has comprised a realistic and advanced map that covers over five million miles of the world. People drove all around the world with cameras on top of their cars to give the map real street view images.

Apps like Google Maps have come a long way to help people with the even worst sense of direction navigate their way around. Google Maps appeared on smartphones when the first iPhone came out in in 2007, changing the game on how people used and viewed maps. However since Google Maps first came out as an iPhone app, many competitors have come up with new apps of their own, creating even more features that Google Maps now has to compete with.

Not only does Google Maps offer street view images of cities and streets, but it has also compiled imagery of places you can’t drive to like Kenya, the Liwa desert, the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon, other cool places around the world.

2. Although having the street view imaging on maps can be very helpful to see where you are going, it can be somewhat distracting. I would never use the street view imaging while driving because I would get way too confused/distracted and probably end up getting lost looking for details on the map that may or may not help me find where I am going/what I am looking for.

3. I thought the video with the camel in the desert was really incredible. I don’t know when else I would ever be able to see raw footage of the open desert.

Ocean

The ocean is a very big place. Scientist have yet to discover the depths of the darkness within the deep sea. Our knowledge of the ocean expands everyday, we learn to understand it. Imagine if we knew how deep or even what lies in the ocean. We don't know but we have mapped out what we have discovered as a human race. Our technology can only takes us do far. Eventually we'll uncover all the deep ocean secrets and the creatures that live within it.

American Sublime

In class and discussion we talked about the American Sublime and how it has changed over the years. I have thought a lot about how tourism has impacted the sublime, and I believe it has hindered the beauty of the sublime. Personally, I love to explore nature and go to beautiful places to observe the scenery. But more often than not, the location I am trying to access is full of tourists, typically you have to pay money (or at least to park), and the places are marked off or fenced in so you can not explore on your own. This causes the sublime to be less beautiful than it would have been 50-100 years ago when these destinations were not tourist destinations.

Air and Space Museum

Over summer me and my sister went to the Air and Space Museum in San Diego. While walking through the museum it showed the growth and change of airplanes and the influence it had on people in the U.S. This reminded me a lot of what were learning in class because the ways of seeing from airplanes offered a different perspective from individuals. This way of seeing continued to grow over time as the airplane continued to advance. The Air and Space Museum's articles and what were learning in class right now is very similar in the way of how advancing technology of airplanes change the way many people look at the United States. 

Maps of Conceptual Space

In this course we primarily focus on maps of physical space since this is what constitutes most maps. It occurred to me in one of my other classes that maps don't necessarily have to represent physical space. In my kinetics class my professor was drawing a block flow diagram outlining the steps of a reactor design algorithm and I thought to myself, "hey! that's a map!" It used symbols to convey information and was even intended to give directions to solving a problem just as maps can provide directions to solving the problem of getting somewhere. I thought it was pretty cool that maps can be extended beyond what immediately comes to mind when hearing the word.

Bessie Coleman

I was honestly surprised that I've never heard of Bessie Coleman before lecture today, considering how important she was for making advancements for both women and African/Native Americans in aviation. It was fascinating to hear her story in class. I thought it was so inspiring that she wanted to pursue flight so much that she worked as a manicurist to save money and studied French at night, all to go to foreign country with a completely new culture, in order to get her international pilot's license. She was willing to brave adverse conditions (monetarily, as the daughter of a single working mother, and socially, as a young Black and Native woman in the cultural climate of 1920's America) in order to be the first female African American pilot and the first person of Native American descent to hold a pilot's license. I highly recommend looking up more on her life if you're curious about her, because her life was pretty incredible.

Make-Up Assignment for 2/9

1.For the first article, How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything, talks about how a google map is actually built, with lots of underlying logic and databases. And the article also mentioned that they don’t merely collect data from single reliable source, they would try to look for more information and data by themselves. For example, in building the imagery of street view, they incorporate the idea of OCR into it and state that with the improvements in computer vision and OCR, they may have the chance to turn any word into the physical world.  

As for the second article, Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape is talking about the evolution of Google Maps and about how the features become a reality in the Apps. For instance, the article is describing how street view is created by a car equipped with sensors and cameras.

Eventually for the third article, it is quite self-explanatory by the name of it, Seven Wonders of the world to explore on Google Street View. Actually, it is about the successes of Google Maps in getting street views of beautiful places, such as Yosemite in California.

2. For the idea that Google Maps links the online world to the offline world, it’s partly true. But however great the Google Maps is, we cannot deny the fact that google maps makes us rely more on the technology instead of recognizing the routes ourselves. Sometimes Google Maps can be misleading and can lead you to routes of a longer distance. So, basically this idea is partly true. Whilst Google Maps provides technological advances and convenience to us, one should know how to strike a balance between technology and its one cognitive ability.

3. I watched the one about Kenya’s Samburu Park, and I am amazed by how they utilized camels to record the street views. In the article, they also mentioned that they used the street camera to spot more than 600 elephants. This makes me wonder the possibility of Google Maps working in environmental aspect, such as using real-time processing skills to track the species.