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We suggest a solution, backed by statistical data, to the problem. Our solution is general in nature as it is applicable from the old technologies like CRT to the latest one like PDP. The solution is based on technology used in various types of display devices to generate different colors. Consider the case of CRTs. A CRT monitor uses a cathode ray tube to display images. The back of the tube has a negatively charged cathode, and an electron gun shoots electrons down the tube and onto a charged screen. The screen is coated with a pattern of dots that glow when struck by the electron stream. Each cluster of three dots, one of each color, is one pixel. Certain colors, such as white, require all three dots to be charged, and are energy intensive to display. Other colors such as black require no additional energy to produce and thus consume the least out of all the colors. Latest technologies like Plasma displays use the same three dots of phosphors per pixel technique as CRTs and thus colors are produced in the same way.
Therefore power consumption for CRT and PDP monitors is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, and any given CRT monitor requires more power to display a bright screen than a dark one.
Data collected from the experiments done by us showed
that a difference of about 12W was obtained switching from a white to a black screen background depending upon the size and intensity level of the monitors.
This forms the basis of our solution. Our solution advo- cates the usage of those color schemes which are energy effi-
cient. At individual level saving may appear negligible but idea when implemented at large level, considerable amount of energy can be saved which would have been wasted other- wise. This solution may be implemented at different levels.
We can use browser option to change the color scheme for some or all the pages one views. The advantage to this approach is that significant energy savings can be realized, as all incoming web traffic is converted to a low-energy format. There are several alternatives depending on the browser and/or operating system in use.
Options > General > Appearance > Colors to alter your
personal color scheme. You will also need to go to Tools >
Internet Options > General > Appearance > Accessibility to
override the default color options on the pages that you visit.
We can also change the themes of our operating systems to achieve the same target. Using the themes based on black color will reduce the power consumption. For Windows XP/Vista this can be done by right clicking on the desktop and the selecting the properties. Then from the themes tab themes can be changed easily.
Screen savers were made to prevent images from being "burned" into the monitor. Newer monitors don't really need screen savers anymore. In fact, a screen saver will likely consume more electricity than just leaving the computer running idle, because it consumes processor power and graphics processing power to display those lovely graphics.
The monitor was connected to watt meter and power supply was given.
Step 1- Firstly screen was made to display only black colour completely and values were noted down from the watt meter.
Step 2- Then screen was changed to all white and readings were noted down again keeping all the other conditions similar.
Thus result shows a difference of about 12 W between the cases when screen were completely black and completely white.
It can be easily inferred from the data given above that a lot of energy can be saved by just following some very simple steps. Thus, if it is applied on large scale some very significant effects could be seen.
Some further research can also be done with proper
instruments of high precision so that the actual difference is obtained with no experimental errors.
We would here by like to give our sincere thanks to the following persons without whose help this paper would not have been complete.
Mr. Samarjeet Ghosh for encouraging us to write a paper and
providing us access to various labs for calculating the data. Mr. Narendra Kumar and Mr. Mayank for helping us in the labs.
This document provides information about a 4th semester computer engineering course on computer graphics. The course code is CO/CM/CD 9068. It includes 3 hours of theory and 2 hours of practical per week. Assessment includes an end of semester exam worth 80 marks, a theory test worth 20 marks, and an oral exam worth 25 marks. The rationale explains how computer graphics is used to convey information visually and its applications. The objectives are to learn algorithms for drawing lines, circles, polygons and natural objects as well as transformations, raster graphics, and interactive graphics. The content will cover basics, shapes, transformations, windowing, curves, fractals, and interactive graphics. Practical sessions will develop programming skills and include implementing various computerRead less
Steven Paul Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer CEO, and co-founder of Apple Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together the two gained fame and wealth a year later with the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers.
Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface GUI. This led to the development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984, the first mass-produced computer with a GUI.
The Macintosh introduced the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 after a long power struggle with the company's board and its then-CEO John Sculley. That same year, Jobs took a few of Apple's members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized in computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, he helped to develop the visual effects industry when he funded the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986. The new company was Pixar, which produced the first 3D computer animated feature film Toy Story 1995.
Apple acquired NeXT in 1997, and Jobs became CEO of his former company within a few months. He was largely responsible for helping revive Apple, which had been on the verge of bankruptcy. He worked closely with designer Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications, beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign and leading to the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new Mac OS X now known as macOS, based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time. Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003. He died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor at age 56 on October 5, 2011.
His biological father, Abdulfattah "John" al-Jandali Arabic: عبد الفتاح الجندلي b. 1931, grew up in Homs, Syria, and was born into an Arab Muslim household. While an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, he was a student activist and spent time in prison for his political activities. He pursued a PhD at the University of Wisconsin, where he met Joanne Carole Schieble, a Catholic of Swiss and German descent. As a doctoral candidate, Jandali was a teaching assistant for a course Schieble was taking, although both were the same age. Mona Simpson, Jobs's biological sister, notes that her maternal grandparents were not happy that their daughter was dating a Muslim. Walter Isaacson, author of the Steve Jobs biography, additionally states that Schieble's father "threatened to cut Joanne off completely" if she continued the relationship.
Jobs's adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs, was a Coast Guard mechanic. After leaving the Coast Guard, Paul Jobs married Clara Hagopian in 1946. Their attempts to start a family were halted after Clara had an ectopic pregnancy, leading them to consider adoption in 1955.
Schieble became pregnant with Jobs in 1954, when she and Jandali spent the summer with his family in Homs, Syria. According to Jandali, Schieble deliberately did not involve him in the process: "without telling me, Joanne upped and left to move to San Francisco to have the baby without anyone knowing, including me."
Schieble gave birth to Jobs on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco and chose an adoptive couple for him that was "Catholic, well-educated, and wealthy," but the couple later changed their mind. Jobs was then placed with Paul and Clara Jobs, neither of whom had a college education, and Schieble refused to sign the adoption papers. She then took the matter to court in an attempt to have her baby placed with a different family, and only consented to releasing the baby to Paul and Clara after the couple pledged to pay for the boy's college education.
Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.
When Steve Jobs was in high school, his mother Clara admitted to his girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan, that she "was too frightened to love for the first six months of his life ... I was scared they were going to take him away from me. Even after we won the case, Steve was so difficult a child that by the time he was two I felt we had made a mistake. I wanted to return him." When Chrisann shared his mother's comment with Steve, he stated that he was already aware, and would later say he was deeply loved and indulged by Paul and Clara. Jobs would become upset when Paul and Clara were referred to as his "adoptive parents"; he regarded them as his parents "1,000%". With regard to his biological parents, Jobs referred to them as "my sperm and egg bank. That's not harsh, it's just the way it was, a sperm bank thing, nothing more."
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