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Khan Academy: Pixar in a Box: the math behind the movies
Every day, learners around the world visit Khan Academy to brush up their skills and explore new subjects. Maybe you’ve studied math on Khan Academy, and maybe you’ve wondered how artists, scientists, and engineers use math to build amazing things.To help answer that question, Khan Academy, with support from Disney, teamed up with Pixar Animation Studios to create Pixar in a Box: a free online curriculum that shows how Pixar artists use the concepts we all study in school to create their amazing movies.Through video lessons, interactive exercises, and hands-on activities, you can learn how Pixar artists use math to solve design problems at each stage of the creative process. In particular, you’ll discover:- How large swarms of robots in “WALL•E” were designed using combinatorics- How a field of grass was created in “Brave” using parabolic arcs- How simple models are transformed into realistic characters using weighted averages-&n…