Battlezone, a first-person tank shooting game, was the first video game where players could manoeuvre through an imaginary landscape. Its developers used vector graphics, made of points and lines with no filled spaces instead of pixels, to save processing power. The system calculates the centre points of objects and uses those to decide if they should be displayed on the screen. The downside to this system is that objects disappear when they get too close because their centre points are now beyond the screen. Read full article here
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Improving media literacy could boost trust towards the news, IMPRESS report suggests
The UK media is regulated by the likes of IPSO and Ofcom. The report by press regulator IMPRESS highlights the link between low levels of media literacy and trust in the news. The study found that three quarters of those who did not know if journalists were regulated did not trust the news. It suggests that improving media literacy is one way to stem the erosion of trust, and shows that audiences have an appetite for information on news processes. Stakeholders need to collaborate in order to rebuild trust in the news, and independent media is well placed to do this. Read full article here
Merv
February 1, 2023
