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Forget about hand-drawn mockup and clickable wireframe. Justinmind is launching the next generation of wireframing and prototyping tool: Justinmind Protyper 3.0 Beta.

From fully functional dynamic websites to mobile applications or mailing softwares (even Street fighters-like games), Justinmind Prototyper allows you to create almost anything in record time and without a single line of coding. With many drag & drop functions (i.e import for Illustrator/photoshop), the prototyper is incredibly easy to use and so powerful it´s virtually impossible to distinguish the real thing from the prototype (for there is none, except the auto-generated HTML code behind it). With functions like database simulationsor rich interactions, many widgets and templates (i.e mobile platforms), interactive creations are limitless.

Serious about getting as much feedback as possible, Justinmind is thus launching several testing contests both on Windows and Mac, giving away free licences of its software as prizes. Check out Justinmind´s blog.

Here comes a few of Justinmind Prototyper´s features:

Real-time simulation

Test your application’s dynamic behaviour in real-time without code generation

User interface design and Information Architecture

Create fully functional prototypes per drag-and-drop

Free viewer for your software simulations
Functional scenarios

Define and simulate your application’s control flow

Data behavior simulation

Simulate your business applications with real data

Requirements and comments management

Associate comments and requirements with simulation elements

Templates and masters

Reuse elements and apply changes easily

Export/import simulation elements and share them with others

Documentation generation

generate documentation for proposals, specification documents, and more from a complete prototype

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A scanner is a device that has succeeded telephotography. These days, there are different scanners being sold in the market.

A scanner is an input device that:
- scans images
- prints text
- prints handwriting
- prints an object and converts it to digital images

Kinds of Scanners
- Drum scanners have rotating drums with a one-photo detector for a standard speed of 60 or 120 rpm. Using a telephone voice line to receptor, they can send linear analog AM signals. It prints the proportional intensity on special paper synchronously. This was used from the 1920s to the 1990s.

Color photos were sent as three separated and repeated RGB filtered images. This was only used occasionally because of the transmission cost.

- Desktop scanners or flatbed scanners found in offices are common examples of scanners. Documents are placed on the glass window for scanning.
- Handheld scanners are devices moved by hand. It evolves from text scanning to 3D scanners which are used for:
• industrial design
• reverse engineering
• test measurement
• orthotics
• gaming and more

These mechanically-driven scanners are used for large-format documents. Flatbed designs are not practical.

What these scanners use:
1. Modern scanners use image sensors such as:
• Charge-coupled device (CCD) or
• Contact Image Sensor (CIS)
2. Older drum scanners use a photomultiplier tube as its image sensor.
3. Rotary Scanner uses a CCD selection instead of a photomultiplier. Rotary Scanner is used for express document scanning. This is another type of drum scanner.
4. Planetary Scanner takes photographs of books and documents.
5. 3D Scanners are used for producing three-dimensional models of objects.

Other category of scanners:
Digital Camera Scanners
This is a reprographic camera. It becomes an attractive alternative to ordinary scanners. The disadvantages of this scanner are:
• distortion
• reflection
• shadows
• low contrast

Some of the advantages are:
• speed
• portability
• gentle digitizing of thick documents without damaging the book spine

The new scanning evolution combines 3D scanners with digital cameras. This is to make:
- full color
- photo realistic 3D model objects

Flatbed Scanners possess a glass pane with a bright light. These bright lights illuminate the pane and move optical selection which may be CCD or CIS.

These lights are usually:
• xenon or
• cold cathode fluorescent

Color scanners usually have three rows of sensors with:
• red
• green and
• blue filters

The images are scanned by placing images face down on the glass. An opaque cover is lowered over it so as to cover ambient light. The sensor selection will move over the pane in order to read the entire copy. Due to the reflecting light, the image becomes visible to the charge-coupled device. See-through images do not work this way. It needs special accessories in order to light them up from the upper side.

Scanning is only a part of the process. In order to make the scanned object useful, it must be transferred to an application running on the computer.

There are two basic issues with this:
1. the physical connection of the scanner to the computer and
2. the information retrieval of the application from the scanner
The Physical Connection of the Scanner to the Computer
The amount of data gathered by a scanner can be very large.
For example: A 600 DPI 9″ x 11″ uncompressed 24-bit image. It consumes about 100 megabytes. With this, uncompressed data is transferred and stored on the computer. The latest scanners can gather this volume of data in a matter of seconds. It makes a desirably fast connection.

The Four Connections used by Scanner
1. Parallel
2. Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
3. Universal Serial Bus (USB)
4. Fire Wire

Application Programming Interface
An application must be able to communicate with scanners such as Adobe Photoshop. There are different scanners and each scanner has different protocols. To simplify application for programming, Application Programming Interfaces were made. Hence, API gives a uniform interface to the scanner. The application does not require knowing the specific details of the scanner so as to access it directly.

In reality, there are problems with an application communicating with scanners. Maybe the application or the manufacturer of the scanner has made a mistake in their implementation of API.

Kim Parnell on the application of Finite Element Analysis to the cardiovascular stent process and how they perform when implanted in the body.

My granddaughter can not understand this so she asked me. I never took computer fundamentals/ PLease help 10 points. Thank you.

1. Which of the following is a component of both the Software Development Life Cycle and Rapid Application Development processes?
A. phased conversion method
B. development of prototypes
C. joint application design (JAD) workshops
D. joint requirements planning (JRP) workshops

2. _______________________ tools are graphical, interactive tools for analysis and design phases of software development.
A. object-oriented systems analysis (OOSA)
B. joint application design (JAD) workshops
C. joint requirements planning (JRP) workshops
D. computer-aided software engineering (CASE)

3. The Rapid Application Development transition phase is similar to the Software Development Life Cycle ______________ phase.
A. implementation
B. systems design
C. development
D. conversion

4. One thing that makes Rapid Application Development unique is that during the user design phase, an organization may use ___________ to complete system analysis and design of the new information system.
A. joint application design (JAD)
B. rapid construction
C. object-oriented systems analysis (OOSA)
D. joint requirements planning (JRP)

5. _____ and ______ both use highly structured workshops in the Rapid Application Development process.
A. JAD; RAD
B. JRP; ERP
C. JRP; JAD
D. CASE; JAD

3D Design Courses, School of Art, Design and Architecture, visit www.huddersfield3d.co.uk. This video shows the hardware testing and useage for 3D character animation creation used for visualising design into 3D virtual environment Motion capture, motion tracking, or mocap system used here at the Art, Design and Architecture at the University is moven full body system. The process of recording movement and translating the movement onto a digital model is used in game, military, entertainment, sports, 3D animations and medical applications. In filming the human actors use the system to animate digital character models in 3D animation. When it includes face, fingers and captures subtle expressions, it is often referred to as performance capture. In motion capture records only the movements of the actor, not his/her visual appearance. Camera movements can also be motion captured so that a virtual camera in the scene will pan, tilt, or dolly around the stage driven by a camera operator, while the actor is performing and the motion capture system can capture the camera and props as well as the actor’s performance.

This project came out from Rapid Mobile Application Prototyping organized by Jürgen Scheible. This technical demo enable to utilize S60 python code communicates with micro-controllers via Bluetooth. This rapid prototype is created in a week of time. This experience of using mobile application and physical computing continued to my final thesis called Emotional Communication. Especially Narrowcasting TV is based on this rapid prototype. This prototype proves mobile rapid prototyping environment such as S60 Python and Micro-controller such as BASIC Stamp can work very well and rapidly prototyped in a week of time.

I am not an aerospace engineer i’m a high school student but i’m interested in this field and enjoy 3d design. relatively speaking i’m new to the 3d design (and aerospace :p), but im curious in seeing how one app for an a/s engineer works
haha i agree 3ds max is what im working with and its awesome and easy.

This project came out from Rapid Mobile Application Prototyping organized by Jürgen Scheible. This technical demo enable to utilize S60 python code communicates with micro-controllers via Bluetooth. This rapid prototype is created in a week of time. This experience of using mobile application and physical computing continued to my final thesis called Emotional Communication. Especially Narrowcasting TV is based on this rapid prototype. This prototype proves mobile rapid prototyping environment such as S60 Python and Micro-controller such as BASIC Stamp can work very well and rapidly prototyped in a week of time.