Computer
Computer
Assistant Professor Dr Susanne Boll (Department of Computing Science)
Assistant Professor Dr Ralf Reussner (Department of Computing Science)
How is it actually possible that dinosaurs, which have long since become extinct, are once again roaming around in cinemas and on television? 
Well, one might perhaps think that – as in a flipbook – individual images are drawn, photographed one by one, and then played back to create a film. That would probably involve a lot of artists, who would have to draw a huge number of very precise pictures. Today, however, it’s done quite differently: the computer helps to recreate the dinosaur, make it move realistically, view it from all angles, and give it a beautiful colour and a scaly skin. We want to look at how the computer calculates the dinosaur images and how it makes them move. In doing so, we’ll talk about how computers work and also about their individual components – in other words, the hardware.