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Unplugged Activity | Crowdsourcing

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This lesson is called crowdsourcing. In this lesson we'll

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use a deck of cards to learn about how much[br]easier some things can be to do in groups

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instead of trying to do them all alone. So[br]grab some friends and make something awesome.

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Crowdsourcing is getting help from a large[br]group of people to finish something faster.

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In computer science, we use crowdsourcing[br]all the time. Thousands of amateurs and professionals

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link their computers together to search through[br]billions and billions of pieces of information.

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Looking for things like the next Marsenne[br]prime number, or even possible alien communications.

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First you were all like, woah! And then we[br]were like, woah! And then you were like, woah...

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When you see a movie, each second of the movie[br]is 24 individual pictures, we call those frames.

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So every one of those pictures needs to be[br]created and rendered and put all together.

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My team and I, we're all software developers.[br]We all work together to create a piece of

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software that actually creates an image, creates[br]the final image that you see on screen. That's

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a tool that artists and other developers can[br]use as part of their teamwork and their process

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to be able to create the images that they[br]want on screen. For example, in Finding Nemo,

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when Crush and Squirt and all their friends[br]are flying through the East Australian Current,

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You're seeing images of water flowing by,[br]you're seeing the colors on the back of the

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turtle, you're seeing the sides of the fish.[br]All of those things are generated through

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math and computer programs that we write,[br]that we then give to the artist and they take

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that to create that final image and tweak[br]it and make it look beautiful and look fun.