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Pixar in a Box
Course: Pixar in a Box > Unit 13
Lesson 1: Building crowds- Start here!
- Introduction to combinatorics
- 1. Counting with tables
- Table of combinations
- 2. Robot combinations
- Robot combinations
- 3. Tree challenge
- 4. Counting with trees
- Tree of combinations
- 5. Casting challenge
- Casting challenge
- Getting to know Fran Kalal
- Hands-on activity
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Overview of this topic
Welcome to Crowds!
In this topic we'll explore how swarms of robots were created for WALL-E using combinatorics.
This topic contains two lessons:
- Appropriate for grades 4-7
- Use combinations to create your own cast of robots of a given size
- Appropriate for the high school level
- Explore how combinations and permutations leads us to the binomial coefficient when casting scenes
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- Why is Pixar paying for animated pieces of Robots?(54 votes)
- The prices represent how much they have to pay their designers to create each piece. More complex pieces take longer to make, so cost more.(60 votes)
- why would they need to pay instead of creating them thereselves(7 votes)
- Because each of their editors need to be paid somehow. It's no good applying for a job at Pixar if everything you do there is for free.(4 votes)
- how do you create different things?(4 votes)
- By thinking how to write program creatively and try to make it better.(3 votes)
- how was walle made(6 votes)
- He was probably just a robot then they all went to space and he just went on(0 votes)
- how long does it take to make and finish making a whole crowd(1 vote)
- Quite a while. You need a lot of different combinations.(7 votes)
- does this method apply to animation too?(4 votes)
- if there making the movies why do they have to buy the peices(2 votes)
- When you refer to Company as they. It includes people who are paid to do the pieces.(4 votes)
- where can I learn programing(3 votes)
- you can learn it on code.org(1 vote)
- becase movies and storys and walley(2 votes)
- Is there a program like this for 11 and 12 year olds?(2 votes)
- you can find it on code.org(1 vote)