New Intel P4 Paves Way for New Generation of Applications

A lot of consumers wonder, as PC's become faster, do I really need all this speed? If you’re only surfing the web or just doing simple office document word processing, the answer is probably no. Last years computer is probably more than fast enough. But if you’re like a lot of consumers and do a lot of digital home video editing or digital photo editing, you cannot have too fast of a computer. And today’s fastest computer, which is an Intel Pentium 4 processor running at 2.2 GHz, lets you do real time effects in video and with photo editing that last year would have taken several minutes to render. A great example is this latest application called Crazy Talk which lets you animate a photo in real time.


Crazy Talk is an example of high-end digital software that lets you animate in real time, any photograph. You can even take photographs of friends and family and a process begins where you actually map out points on the face that relate to emotional responses. The software will guide you through the process asking to map out the eyes, the nose, the mouth, even parts of the hairline. That way later on when you supply a sentence, the computer knows automatically how to move these points to and fro to simulate real speech and real emotion. www.reallusion.com




Another example of software that wasn’t even possible a year ago without the Pentium 4 2.2 GHz processing is an application called Flip Album. Flip Album lets you create your own custom photo flipbook. Now the real secret behind Flip Album is it actually lets you animate photos as the pages are turning. Your can add your own narration, you can add an audio soundtrack, but by enabling the pages themselves to be animated as the pages flip, it makes the photo album even more realistic than ever before. www.flipalbum.com


So where do we go from here? There’s actually a theorem called Moores Law, which states that computer processing speed will double every 18 months. Incredibly enough that has been the case ever since the computer has been invented. If we can do high end, real time computer animations today, imagine what we can do 18 months from now. www.intel.com