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What Is Illustration Design?

Illustration Design offers commercial artists a certain amount of freedom of expression. Unlike designers who develop logos and similar images, Illustration Designers are frequently expected to create lively, character-driven illustrations with personality and often a touch of humor.

The Field of Illustration Design

With many companies today using clip art and other downloadable images, Illustration Designers often work as independent contractors or freelancers rather than corporate employees. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, nearly two-thirds of all artists work as freelancers. Finding work depends on the illustrator's talent, contacts and networking abilities. Artists who are skilled in digital Illustration Design are especially in demand. Once hired, Illustration Designers use their skills to create images that represent specific concepts.

Illustration Design Programs

Artists who gravitate toward Illustration Design usually have academic training in art even though they may not have a college degree. Some types of Illustration Design, such as medical illustration, require a minimum of a bachelor's degree in art, with some positions requiring a master's degree. Colleges, universities, art academies and technical schools typically offer coursework in illustration, sketching, drawing, digital art, animation and design. For artists without a degree, a portfolio containing their best work is critical to getting a job as an employee or a contract as a freelancer.

Careers in Illustration Design

Illustration Design can be thought of as commercial art created for specific industries. Many Illustration Designers specialize and find consistent work in such fields as:

• Book design and illustration
• Television, cinema and other multimedia endeavors
• Comic books and graphic novels
• Textbook illustration
• Web design
• Scientific and other specialized illustration
• Storyboarding
• Caricature
• Fashion and costume design
• Cartooning

Millions of Caterpillars Attacking Citizens Probolinggo

If Indonesia is now being terrorized by a parcel bomb, unlike the East Java town of Probolinggo in a scene with terror millions of caterpillars that attack people every day. This phenomenon can be said is strange because the same has been attacked seven villages at once in Probolinggo. As a result, residents are forced to clean the yard of their home almost two hours every morning and evening.

Already this week the villagers Sumber Ulu, Leces, Kedawung, Pondok Hulu, Tegasan, Malasan, and Kerpangan fidgety by the attack of thousands of caterpillars that fall from the tree. They were forced to clean up their yard every day because these caterpillars had ruined their crops, and has even forced their way into the yard of the house and the inside of the house residents.

Not a few residents who feel the itching due to caterpillar hairs on the fly. It is also aggravating the condition of residents in seven villages. Even many residents who fled to the house of relatives to avoid the outbreak of hives. Citizens expect local government to intervene to solve this epidemic. Meanwhile, caterpillar attack was not only alarmed local residents, residents from nearby villages began to feel uneasy going to attack millions of these caterpillars.

source : 1001zones

Quantum computing device hints at powerful future

Although comparatively small, the system's "scalable" architecture speaks to a bigger future

One of the most complex efforts toward a quantum computer has been shown off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas in the US.
It uses the strange "quantum states" of matter to perform calculations in a way that, if scaled up, could vastly outperform conventional computers.
The 6cm-by-6cm chip holds nine quantum devices, among them four "quantum bits" that do the calculations.
The team said further scaling up to 10 qubits should be possible this year.
Rather than the ones and zeroes of digital computing, quantum computers deal in what are known as superpositions – states of matter that can be thought of as both one and zero at once.
In a sense, quantum computing's one trick is to perform calculations on all superposition states at once. With one quantum bit, or qubit, the difference is not great, but the effect scales rapidly as the number of qubits rises.
The figure often touted as the number of qubits that would bring quantum computing into a competitive regime is about 100, so each jump in the race is a significant one.
"It's pretty exciting we're now at a point that we can start talking about what the architecture is we're going to use if we make a quantum processor," Erik Lucero of the University of California, Santa Barbara told the conference.
The team's key innovation was to find a way to completely disconnect – or "decouple" – interactions between the elements of their quantum circuit.
The delicate quantum states that they create must be manipulated, moved, and stored without destroying them.
"It's a problem I've been thinking about for three or four years now, how to turn off the interactions," UCSB's John Martinis, who led the research," told BBC News.
"Now we've solved it, and that's great – but there's many other things we have to do."
Qubits and pieces
The solution came in the form of what the team has termed the RezQu architecture. It is basically a blueprint for a quantum computer, and several presentations at the conference focused on how to make use of it.
"For me this is kind of nice, I know how I'm going to put them together," said Professor Martinis.
"I now know how to design it globally and I can go back and try to optimise all the parts."
RezQu seems to have an edge in one crucial arena – scalability – that makes it a good candidate for the far more complex circuits that would constitute a quantum computer proper.
"There are competing architectures, like ion traps – trapping ions with lasers, but the complexity there is that you have to have a huge room full of PhDs just to run your lasers," Mr Lucero told BBC News.

The team has been steadily increasing the complexity of their quantum devices

"There's already promise to show how this architecture could scale, and we've created custom electronics based on cellphone technology which has driven the cost down a lot.
"We're right at the bleeding edge of actually having a quantum processor," he said. "It's been years that a whole community has blossomed just looking at the idea of, once we have a quantum computer, what are we going to do with it?"
Britton Plourde, a quantum computing researcher from the University of Syracuse, said that the field has progressed markedly in recent years.
The metric of interest to quantum computing is how long the delicate quantum states can be preserved, and Dr Plourde noted that time had increased a thousand fold since the field's inception.
"The world of superconducting quantum bits didn't even exist 10 years ago, and now they can control [these states] to almost arbitrary precision," he told BBC News.
"We're still a long way from a large-scale quantum computer but it's really in my eyes rapid progress."

source: bbcuk