Chapter 277: The Peach Blossom Fairy Planted a Peach Tree

The Leica camera, which once occupied 100% of the market share, finally released a new product D1, digital camera, the meaning of 1 is 1 million pixels, just in conjunction with the use, which can make the whole photo displayed on the LCD screen, at this time the LCD screen is still very grainy, so its birth did not provoke a strong reaction in the industry, thinking that it is a plaything specially prepared for the preparation of the film, and does not have the ability to compete with film.

The quality of film Leica's competitors has slowly caught up and is much cheaper, so that Leica's market share has dropped to about 50%, and it is still continuing. Fans of the Windsor empire are worried that Leica will eventually be driven out of the market by its rivals.

The film version of Leica has an annuity of £10, and the D1 sells for £3, as if he was self-aware, willing to play an inconspicuous supporting role. However, it does an excellent job of connectivity, and it also allows you to read the photos in the D1 by placing them directly on the "Smart Desktop" without the need for wiring.

D1 can store 100 photos, and can be quickly transferred and emptied through guò, so there is an advantage in capacity, Downing believes that it can meet the needs of ordinary users to share their lives for a long time, and after the science and technology exhibition, his prediction was confirmed, 20% of users bought D1 at the same time, so that they can share photos.

In order to protect digital rights, each D1 has a unique "watermark", which is a pattern composed of a very small string of pinhole-like pixels, printed in the lower right corner, which is invisible to the naked eye. The benefits of monopoly and the Internet are here, ArtPress can scan uploaded photos, and once a copyright dispute is found, it can immediately determine the ownership of the photo, these are the secrets hidden behind it, and so far there has been no dispute, otherwise there would be Leica's explanation of digital rights protection technology in court.

The advent of digital cameras has had a much greater impact on social change than many people think, making identity verification more stringent, because photos on ID cards can be tampered with, while digital photos on remote servers are difficult to hack. The Windsor transportation empire around the world can rely on this technology to automate identification.

Bracelets are now the only means of payment for almost all public transportation in Windsor. At the entrance of strict identity control, when the bracelet is cleared, the automatic camera will take a picture of the passenger's face, as long as the simple program calculates the passenger's eye distance, nose width and other rough numbers jù can judge whether the passenger is the same person as the last trip, if the judgment is abnormal, the security personnel can intervene.

Since the birth of the airship, due to the strict management measures formulated by Downing, there has never been a serious accident, and it has become the most trusted means of transportation for passengers. However, being okay now does not mean that it will be okay in the future, and it will be the first institution to adopt digital facial recognition technology, not only for passengers, but also for flight attendants, so as to prevent anti-Windsor religious elements from fishing in troubled waters.

With the rapid development of chip technology, digital cameras will soon become digital video cameras, and the term "film killer" in the film industry may never appear again, because digital television and movies are likely to be invented before film films. Before that, Downing's four-year-old cartoon for his daughter was on the road ahead of digital images.

After fierce international competition, Tang Ning finally selected a team led by Wu Changshuo, a young painter from Hangzhou, as the original artist, and created the cartoon "Peach Blossom Spring" based on Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring". Because Tang Ning has seen the peach blossom works faxed by Wu Changshuo, he loves it deeply. The current Wu Changshuo is not yet a master of the Shanghai School in the future, but he is already quite famous, and Tang Ning likes the peach blossoms he painted.

Fortunately, Wu Changshuo is not yet famous, only twenty years old, so he studied poetry and painting very hard, and among all the painters, he was the first to master the stylus coloring technique, which is a completely new field, and only young painters have the plasticity to follow the trend.

After receiving funding from the Windsor Foundation, almost all the talented young painters, writers, and musicians in Hangzhou surrounded the original painter with Comrade Wu Changshuo as the core, and recreated the plot, picture, and music of the Peach Blossom Spring. These artists worked hard, as the Windsor consortium gave them a minimum annual salary of more than £500 (for convenience, the Great Qing silver dollar was "exchanged for huàn" into pounds here).

The residents of Peach Blossom Land fled into the valley to avoid the war in the Qin period, and Wu Changshuo's family also fled during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so he thinks this theme is quite emotional. After the release, these funded first-generation animators were the first to get them. As sales skyrocketed, so did the capabilities of cloud computing, and ArtPress's animation capabilities grew stronger.

The animation software has a variety of functions that automatically generate animations from the keyframes of the original painting, such as: rotation, movement, fade and fade, color change, zoom in and out, and deformation. Deformation is one of the most complex, and animators specify the initial and end shapes to generate an animation of the deformation from the initial to the end point.

Wind erosion, water brushing, fire, gravity flattening, spring stretching, and other effects that can be derived from deformation. In order to control all kinds of complex deformations, Downing even offered a reward to the mathematics students of the Global Polytechnic University Alliance for their ability to create mathematical descriptions of various deformations and movements.

One multiple-choice question goes something like this: Which of the following four options is most different from the other three?

a。 Ph.D. in Mathematical Biology; b。 Ph.D. in Theoretical Mathematics; c。 Ph.D. in Statistics; d。 A pepperoni pizza

No need to guess, the correct answer is b. Because the other three can feed a family of four. It can be seen how shabby the people who study theoretical mathematics are, but they are also one of the smartest people. Here at the Windsor Foundation, if someone who is engaged in theoretical mathematics does some small work to match the mathematical curves of various actions of the animation software, then you will be reborn.

When Wu Changshuo's team painted peach blossoms to the point of vomiting, Tang Ning added a filter function to ArtPress, and personally organized the writing of the most famous flowering filter. This filter only needs to prepare three pictures of the front, back, and side of the flower for it, specify the curve of the branch, and it can randomly generate countless flowers along the branch, which is really a killer filter for a world where thousands of trees are blooming.

Due to the rush of time, this filter is only great for flowers and trees at a distance, and it looks a little unnatural when you look at it closely, so it gives each flower generated a layer, and the action artist can make careful adjustments to the close-up, but this has increased the productivity of the animation by hundreds or thousands.

The difficulty of the blossom filter was very great, and after he explained the principle to the programmers and painters, other huge international teams began to write all kinds of magic filters. "The herbs are delicious, and the flowers are colorful". Both the grass filter and the falling flower filter should be there.

"Fishing boats chase water and love mountains and springs", the filter of waves should also be there, and the clouds and fog in the mountains should also be there. These magical filters greatly expand the mountains, water, fog, flowers, and grasses of the Taoyuan Dream Realm, and these still-based scenes are intoxicating backgrounds in the animation, but they seem to be inferior to the scenery.

In the early days of animation, everyone was inexperienced, and the movements of the characters were obviously a little stiff, but this was far beyond people's expectations. The world's first cartoon is here!

Because there is an animation feature on ArtPress, there have been people playing with this interesting feature since its release, and many very amateur animation works have been created, and when "Peach Spring" comes out, it will erect an insurmountable mountain for these amateur players.

Downing loved this fantastic cartoon so much that it wasn't until the 100-inch HD slide projector was built that he brought this dream to his daughter Erin for the first time. Actually, it's movie animation. In the midst of his daughter's surprises, he felt supreme happiness.

After giving her daughter a sneak peek, it's time to have fun with the people. Under the instruction of Boss Tang, the Windsor Consortium officially entered the "theater performance" industry, but he transformed the theater into a movie theater, and it was an animated movie theater.

Downing only created animation movie theaters in 25 cities around the world in order to serve as an example for the industry, and in the future he only wanted to rent out the projection equipment to make a steady profit. Making money is not a pursuit for him, but a kind of life, a kind of charity, and one more business can bring a large number of high-paying employment opportunities.

How high is the salary? We can't afford it, and we can't afford to watch movies? "Peach Spring" was adapted into a complete big-screen story, 50 minutes long, vividly portraying the image of a commoner who has been oppressed by the government. Interestingly, in the end, he also won the essence of the blockbuster, and the protagonist finally returned to the Peach Blossom Land again after all the hardships and lived a happy life with his beloved girl. (http://.)。

The blockbuster is destined to be a big hit, and the global English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and other Chinese versions are selling well. With this work, Wu Changshuo became the richest man in Hangzhou, and his team members also ascended to heaven one by one, entering the ranks of middle-class artists.

Japan's animation industry will reach a terrifying 10% of GDP in later generations, but it is actually a promising industry. To be honest, the ukiyo-e that was popular in Japan at this time was far worse than the Chinese landscape and flower and bird paintings, and they also worked hard in the animation market for many years to fight their way out. The painting art foundation of the Qing Dynasty was much stronger than that of Japan, and Hangzhou suddenly became the center of world animation art.

Reuters also deliberately revealed the story of Mr. Wu's enrichment in order to make the artists sexually explicit. The move was really powerful, and there was a craze around the world to learn to make zuò animation. This is especially true in countries with a large number of artists, such as Japan, Italy, and Austria.

There are also many artists in France, but due to the ban in France, which is equivalent to the ban on the animation industry, a large number of French artists have gone to Belgium, Geneva and Italy to make a living, and Paris, once the center of Europe, has gradually faded.