TITLE: THE EVOLUTION AND MECHANICS OF JOYSTICKS: FROM GAMING TO AEROSPACE INTRODUCTION: JOYSTICKS HAVE TRANSCENDED THEIR ORIGINS AS MERE GAMING PERIPHERALS TO BECOME INTEGRAL COMPONENTS IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES, FROM AVIATION AND SPACE EXPLORATION TO MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY. THESE VERSATILE INPUT DEVICES HAVE EVOLVED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THEIR INCEPTION, OFFERING PRECISE CONTROL AND ERGONOMIC DESIGN. THIS ARTICLE DELVES INTO THE EVOLUTION, MECHANICS, AND DIVERSE APPLICATIONS OF JOYSTICKS ACROSS DIFFERENT FIELDS. HISTORY OF JOYSTICKS: THE CONCEPT OF THE JOYSTICK DATES BACK TO THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY WHEN IT WAS INITIALLY USED IN AVIATION FOR CONTROLLING AIRCRAFT. THE EARLIEST JOYSTICKS WERE SIMPLE MECHANICAL DEVICES CONSISTING OF A LEVER MOUNTED ON A PIVOT, WHICH PILOTS USED TO MANEUVER THEIR PLANES. OVER TIME, JOYSTICKS FOUND THEIR WAY INTO ARCADE GAMES, HOME CONSOLES, AND EVENTUALLY PERSONAL COMPUTERS, REVOLUTIONIZING THE GAMING INDUSTRY. MECHANICS OF JOY...
CUSTOM CONFIGURATION OF PC
APART FROM BRANDED COMPLETE PC’S LIKE IMAC, HP, HCL THE USER CAN ASSEMBLE A PC ACCORDING TO HIS NEED AND USABILITY.
GRAPHIC/CAD/CAM WORKSTATIONS
A SURVEY REVEALED THAT 11 PERCENT OF GRAPHIC DESIGNERS AND ENGINEERS USED MOBILE WORKSTATIONS FOR CAD AND 8 PERCENT USED STANDARD PC NOTEBOOKS. LAPTOP CONFIGURATIONS ARE NOT MADE TO GRAPHICS INTENSIVE ACRIVITIES LIKE CAD, NOR ARE THEY GFENERALLY BUILT FOR USE IN EXTREME CONDITION LIKE CONSTRUCTION SITES, OIL RIGS AND INDUSTRIAL PLANTS. A GRAPHIC DESIGN OR CAD USABLE PC SHOULD HAVE A BETTTER PROCESSING SPEED BETTER QUALITY OF IMAGES. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SPECIFICATIONS TO CUSTOMIZE GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSTATIONS.
POWERFUL PROCESSOR
WHEN WE CONSIDER GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSTATIONS, THE PROCESSOR POWER IS THE FIRST CRITERIA TO LOOK IN. IT IS NECESSARY TO GAUGE THE PURPOSE OF THE MACHINE WHEN CHOOSING THE CPU PROFILE OF A COMPUTER.
GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSTATIONS AND COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN/ COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING ARE COMPUTERS USED FOR SIMILAR YET DISTICNT REASONS. GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSTATIONS ARE USED BY DESKTOP PUBLISHERS IN THE CREATIONS OF HIGH QUALITY COPY CONSISTING OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT AND GRAPHICAL IMAGES.
THIS OUTPUT IS USED IN ADERTISING, MARKETING, AND OTHER FORMS OF SPECIALIZED DOCUMENTATIONS. CAD/CAM WORKSTATIONS ARE USED IN THE DESIGN OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITERCTURAL DOCUMENTATION, INCLUDING BLUEPRINTS IN BOTH TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONS.
SUCH SYSTEM PLACE HIGH LOAD ON THE CPU. SYSTEMS WITH AVERAGE PROCESSORS MAY BECOME OVERLOADED BYU THE AMOUNT OF PROCESSING REQUIRED BY PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICAL SOFTWARE. TO OVERCOME THIS PROBELEM, SUCH SYSTEMS SHOULD BE DESIGNED WITH ABOVE AVERAGE PREFORMANCE.
HIGH END VIDEO QUALITY
AN OBVIOUS REQUIREMENT FOR SUCH SYSTEMS, GRAPHIC ADAPTERS WITH BETTER GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS (GPU’S) AND ADDITIONAL RAMSON BOARD HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO KEEP UP WITH THE DEMAND OF GRPAHIC DESIGN APPLICATIONS.
SUCH APPLICATIONS PLACE AN UNACCEPTABLE LOAD ON THE CPU AND SYSTEM RAM WHEN SPECIAZED PROCESSORS AND ADEQUATE RAM ARE PRESENT ON THE GRAPHICS ADAPTER.
RAM MAXIMIZATION
ALTHOUGH SUCH SYUSTEMS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ENHANCED VIDEO SUBSYSTEMS, ALL APPLICATIONS STILL REQUIRE CPU’S TO PROCESSTHEIR INSTRUCTIONS AND RAM TO HOLD THEE INSTRUCTIONS DURING PROCESSING.
GRPAHICS APPLICATIONS TTEND TO BE PARTICULARLY HIGH CPU AND RAM USER. MAXIMIZINGTHE AMOUND TO RAM THAT CAN BE ACCESSED TO THE CPU AND OPERATING SYSTEMS WILL RESULT IN BETTER OVERALL PERFORMANCE BY GRAPHCI DESIGN WORKSTATIONS.
AUDIO/VIDEO EDITING WORKSTATIONS
PROFESSIONAL WHO EDITS MULTIMEDIA MATERIAL REQUIRES WORKSTATIONS SHOULD HAVE BELOW MENTIONED THREE COMPONENTS.
· DUAL MONITOR
· SPECIALIZED AUDIO AND VIDEO CARD
· SPECIALIZED HARD DRIVE
DUAL MONITOR
A COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH MORE THAN ONE DISPLAY CONNECTED. DUAL MONITOR SYSTE,S CONSIST OF ADDING ADDITIONAL VIDEO ADAPTERS( ALSO CALLED VIDEO CARDS) TO IT, OR BY USING A SINGLE VIDEO CARD THAT IS MULTIPLE PORT FOR MONITORS (CALLED A DUAL HEAD CARD).
THE SECOND DISPLAY SCREEN CAN BE ANY DISPLAY, SUCH AS A TELEVISION, PROJECTOR, OR MONITOR. THIS IS ALSO CALLED MULTI – MONITOR. VIDEO EDITING STATION MULTIPOLE MONITOR COMPUTERS ARE NOW DESIGNED TO HANDLE THE STRAIN OF VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE.
SPECIALIZED AUDIO AND VIDEO CARD
ALTHOUGH A HIGH PERFORMANCE VIDEO SUBSYSTEM IS A BENEFIT FOR COMPUTER SYSTEMS USED BY AUDIO/VIDEO (A/V)EDITOR, IT IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO ENHANCEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS.
AUDIO VIDEO EDITING WORKSTATIONS BENEFIT MOST FROM A GRAPHICS ADAPTER WITH MULTIPLE VIDEO INTERFACES THAT CAN BE USED SIMULTANEOUSLY. THESE ADAPTERS ARE NOT RARE, BUT IT STILL POSSIBLE TO FIND HIGH END ADAPTERS WITH ONLY ONE INTERFACE, WHICH ARE NOT IDEAL FOR A/V EDITING SYSTEMS/
WHEN EDITING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT OR EVEN GENERALIZED DOCUMENTS, IT ISS IMPERATIVE THAT THE EDITOR HAVE MULTIPLE VIEWS OF THE SAME OR SIMILAR FILES. THE EDITOR OF SUCH MATERIAL OFTEN NEEDS TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SAME-FILE.
ADDITIONALLY, MANY A/V AUDITING SOFTWARES SUITS ALLOW AND OFTEN ENCOURAGE OR REQUIRE, THE EDITOR TO USE MULTIPLE UTILITIES SIMULTANEOUSLY.
TO IMPROVE THE VIDEOEDITING PERFORMANCE, IT IS GOOD TO HAVE A GRAPHICS ADAPTER THAT SUPPORTS CUDA AND OPEN CL. CUDA IS NVIDIAS COMPUTER UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURE, A PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE FOR MAKING A BIG PROCESS IN TO SMALL TASKS AND PROCESSING THEM SIMULATNEOUSLY ON GPU.
OPEN COMPUTING LANGUAGE IS A SIMIAR OPEN STANDARD. THE RENDERING OF 2D AND 3D GRAPHICS CAN OCCUR MORE QUICKLY WITH ONE OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES.
THE MOST BASIC AUDIO CONTROLERS IN TODAYS COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARE VERY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE IN THE ORIGINAL SOUND CARDS FROM THE 1980S. THEY STILL USE THE ANALOG CODES WITH A SIMPLE TWO CHANNEL ARRANGEMENT.
EDITORSOF AUDIO INFORMATION WHO AREEXPECTED TO PERFORM QUALITY WORK OFTEN REQUIRE SIX TO EIGHT CHANNELS OF AUDIO. MANY OF TODAYS MOTHERBOARD COME EQUIPED WITH 5.1 AND 7.1 ANALOG AUDIO.
ALTHOUGH ANALOG AUDIO IS NOT ENTIRELY INCOMPATIBLE WITH QUALTY WORK, DIGITAL AUDIO IS PREFERRED MAJORITY OF THE TIME. IN SOME CASES AN AD-ON ADAPTER SUPPORTING SUCH AUDIO MIGHT BE REQUIRED TO SUPPORT AN A/V EDITING WORKSTATIONS.
SPECIALIZED HARD DRIVES
FIRST IT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD THAT IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH LARGE AMOUNTS OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, YOUR HARD DRIVE MUST BE RATED A/V. THIS MEANS THAT THE DRIVE IS SUITED SPEICIFCALLY FOR AUDIO AND VIDEO. WHILE THERE IS CURRENTLY NO INDUSTRY STANDARD FOR WHAT CONSTITUTES AN A/V RATED DRIVE, IN SHORT IT IS LARGELY HAVE TO DO WITH HOW QUICKLY THE DRIVE CAN KEEP UP WITH THE DATA TRANSFER RATE OF THE SOFTWARE YUOURE RUNNING.
SIMPLY STATED, IF YOUR HARD DRIVE IS SLOWER THAN YOUR PROGRAM IT IS LIKELY YOU DON’T HAVE AN A/V RATED HARD DRIVE. SECONDLY, IT S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A HARD DRIVE WITH MULTIPLE INTERFACES. FIREWIRE MUST BE ONE OF THEM BECAUSE FIREWIRE IS A FAST CONNECTION. HAVING MULTIPLE INTERFACES IS CONVENIENT WHEN YOU ARE MOVING AROUND A LOT, AS NOT ALL COMPUTERS WILL HAVE THE EXACT SAME PORTS.
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