Computer
Computer
Junior Professor Dr Susanne Boll (Department of Computing Science)
Junior Professor Dr Ralf Reussner (Department of Computing Science)
How can it be that dinosaurs that have long since ceased to exist are back in the cinema and on television? 
Well, you might think that - like in a flip book - individual pictures are drawn, photographed bit by bit and then a film is created by playing them. That would probably keep a lot of draughtsmen and draughtswomen busy and they would have to draw very precise and very many pictures. Today, however, things are done quite differently: the computer helps to recreate the dinosaur, to move it correctly, to look at it from all sides, to give it a nice colour and a rubbed skin. We want to look at how the computer calculates the images of the dinosaurs and how it makes them run. We will talk about how the computer calculates and also about its individual parts, i.e. the hardware.