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An Animated Look At How A Speaker Makes Sound. We use speakers all of the time. In fact, I’d guess that the device on which you are reading this article has a speaker on it somewhere. Do you know how a speaker works? I’ll admit, I had no idea before I found this awesome animated infographic. Sure, I knew that there was a cone and a bunch of other components that allows them to push the sound towards my ears, but other than that, it was complicated nonsense. Now, I understand, and if you read through this beautiful animated infographic, you will too! Via Animagraffs Click To Enlarge Each Image. Yoga in an X-Ray Machine. Courtesy of Hybrid Medical Animations comes a high-tech “visual study/exploration of the body in motion.” The goal of the animation was to create a realistic representation of x-rays, while also capturing the beauty of various yoga poses. Looks like they hit the mark on both accounts.

In creating this 3D animation, no x-rays were actually used. No one was exposed to radiation in any way, shape or form. It’s all just animation — sophisticated animation that somehow manages to show “proper bone densities and represent actual bone marrow inside each individual bone.” If you practice yoga, you’ll certainly recognize some of the poses in the clip. via Twisted Sifter Related Content: Sonny Rollins Describes How 50 Years of Practicing Yoga Made Him a Better Musician Watch a New Music Video Shot Entirely Within an MRI Machine What Happens When Your Brain is on Alfred Hitchcock: The Neuroscience of Film This is Your Brain on Sex and Religion: Experiments in Neuroscience.

Watch Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, the First Animated Movie (1906) Gorgeous, psychedelic hand-drawn animation made with ink, white-out and coffee. <! -- <! [endif]--><center><iframe src=" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" allowtransparency="true" width="100%" onload="console.log('ad_leaderboard iframe loaded');"></iframe></center><!

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Draw a Stickman. Bells-n-whistles. Humour. Animated Explanations. 5 Innovative Animation Tools for Teachers. Move over, Disney. Step aside, Pixar! It’s now easier than ever for casual users to create fun, engaging animations. With the slew of information available online, even young storytellers can learn the basics of visual storytelling. There are even several free tools that are easy to learn. Teachers can use these tools with students to create all sorts of creative projects.

Learners can create re-enactments of civil war battles, or even simulations of what might have happened, if history had gone differently. Animation can drive imaginative exploration by students, as well as enhancing their writing and storytelling skills. Kerpoof Studio Kerpoof Studio is an easy to use animation site, great for younger kids. Blabberize Blabberize is a fun site where users can upload a picture, upload audio, and then combine them so the mouth in the photo is animated and synchronized with the audio. Fluxtime Scratch Do you have a favorite animation tool y0u use with students?

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