Current Trends In Web Design

I have visited a lot of sites like CSS Zen Garden and others, I keep exploring the web on daily basis, so this article covers most of the current design trends which I recognize as high-quality ones.

Anyway, I’ll be brief and will try to get right to the point.

Web Desktop Style

www.yahoo.com
mail.yahoo.com
www.live.com

pros: High-end looking style
cons: The most expensive

This is the most refined style with attempt to get close to graphics rich desktop look-and-feel as close as possible. As a result, that kind of style looks nice, but requires a lot of work and, usually, consumes lots of traffic.
In brief, Desktop Style can be distinguished by gradients all around, rich graphics, shadows and other imitation of desktop applications.

Examples of distinctive Web Desktop elements:

Blocks. Usually, it is an area of screen with a border, a header and a footer, to aggregate logically connected elements: links, text, a score card, an article preview. Blocks may come with optional shadow.

Miniblocks are blocks in blocks: usually they have mini-picture with tiny text.

Buttons. These web design elements come with gradient, contrast borders, optional shadow. Buttons may have “glass” effect, having reflections from underneath light. Usually buttons react on “mouseover” events (do some visual effect, when user moves mouse over the button).

Tabs. They also use gradient, contrast borders, optional shadow. They react to “mouseover” event.

Silver Orange Style

mozilla.com/firefox
www.digg.com
www.silverorange.com

pros: Usability, lightweight, simple
cons: Fashion, followers, somewhat expensive

A little bit simpler look-and-feel, with a good balance between style and a light-weight composition. Silver Orange style of web design is more concentrated on usability, than on a rich looking interface.
It does not try to impress a user (unlike Desktop Style), but rather provide him with a good usability experience.
As expected, silverorange.com are creators of Silver Orange design style.

Examples of distinctive Silver Orange style elements:

Top Menu. Usually it is dark with a light font color; background comes with a rich-colored gradient and contrast dividers:

Logo and guide line More gradients, guideline is in contrast with top menu background, font color is gray.

Gradient and text divider. More gradients, mild divider

Apple Style

www.apple.com

pros: High-end, quality, luxury
cons: Very distinctive, expensive

The style with glass tabs and buttons as a central figures of the design. Not very usable due to massive use of small or tiny fonts, but still pleasant, if you don’t have to deal with a small text quite often.
Expensive, requires a lot of work. Distinctive, so it’s extremely hard to seem original, doing web design in Apple Style, almost impossible.

Example of distinctive Apple style:

Apple Menu. Apple menu is a central point of Apple web design style. Everything else has pretty much the same style: glass buttons, gradients, rounded blocks…

Microsoft Style

www.microsoft.com
www.msn.com
www.rsdn.ru

pros: Functional, simple, cheap
cons: Perception: you are a MS affiliate

The main thing, which makes a site being in Microsoft Style is a gray, plain navigation panel on the left column with floating menus. Simple, clean and way too generic.
Created by engineers for engineers.

Example of distinctive Microsoft style:

Microsoft Menu. The main menu of Microsoft web design style is gray, functional and simple. Borders, “mouseover” events processing, floating sub-menus… Usually it occupies left column.

One more distinctive thing of Microsoft web design style is gradient in header condensing from left to right with search form on the top-right corner.

All blocks are divided by clean gray lines. I think, it a plus from usability point of view. People may have wide range of opinions on Microsoft way of doing business, but one thing is for sure: Microsoft design style is simple, functional and it has good usability.

Comparing to Apple style, it’s not so rich or luxury. But it works.

Magazine Style

www.style.com
www.drive.ru

pros: Attractive, simple, condensed
cons: Needs lots of text and photos, strongly depends on content quality

Magazine web design style is… well, for magazines. It tries to bring high quality visual composition onto your screen, so you can appreciate all work that magazine designers completed for this issue.
You can recognize it by high quality photos and images, mixed up with lots of links to articles.

Examples of distinctive Magazine style:

Target audience for Magazine Style is magazines reading people. Not engineers, not web designers, not even experienced web users.
This is really high-end stuff, created by professional designers, who can really enjoy what they are doing. In order to do something similar, you better have a pro working for you for a pretty good compensation…

Rounded Plain Style

www.youtube.com

pros: Simple, light, allows to focus on the content
cons: A bit boring, non-original, not impressive

Design like this is not bad at all. Its purpose – to draw attention to content. It also is minimal in terms of traffic.
Typical site (www.youtube.com) has top navigation menu with rounded corners and intentionally simple elements.

Example of distinctive Rounded Plain style:

Web 2.0 Design Style

blogger.com
netflix.com
target.com
ruby-lang.org
yelp.com
blubolt.com

pros: Modern, well accepted, new
cons: Usability issues, fixed width

Web 2.0 design style can be recognized by
- Fixed width
- Central (rounded) shape with shadows
- Lots of gradients and volumes
- Large fonts
- Headers, highlighted with bright colors
- Substantial amount of gray text
- Wide range of text size
- Rounded shapes and buttons
- Shadows, glass-effects, more gradients

Adobe / Macromedia Style

adobe.com
macromedia.com

pros: Clean, simple, balanced, high-end
cons: Expensive, distinctive, usability issues

This style is like Apple’s: once you’ve seen it, you can recognize any attempt to follow it. Very expensive design, very loaded in terms of graphical effects, very balanced overall. Originally created by Macromedia a few years back, this web design style remains one of the best.

Distinctive elements of Macromedia web design style.
Complex gradient menu with shadow, rounded blocks with shadows, rounded banner under menu, fixed width, centered.

This article is not…

This is not even an attempt to come up with a complete description of current web design styles; I’ve just put things (which I personally like) together and  explained distinctive features of them.

Many other web design styles (especially from so called “Art Design” category) are left unexplained. Not because of I find them useless or not pretty, but mostly for usability reasons. You cannot use piece of art in everyday life. You are not suppose to.

I also haven’t highlighted styles, which I didn’t find attractive for lots of reasons: from their usability to aesthetics.

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Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, in humans is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals. The English chemist John Dalton in 1794 published the first scientific paper on the subject, “Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours”, ^[1] after the realization of his own color blindness; because of Dalton’s work, the condition is sometimes called Daltonism, although this term is now used for a type of color blindness called deuteranopia.

Color blindness is usually classed as a disability; however, in select situations color blind people may have advantages over people with normal color vision. There is anecdotal evidence that color blind individuals are better at penetrating color camouflage and at least one scientific study (Morgan, Adams and Mollon, 1992) confirms this under controlled conditions. Monochromats may have a minor advantage in dark vision, but only in the first five minutes of dark adaptation.

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Prevalence

Color blindness affects a significant number of people, although exact proportions vary among groups. In Australia, for example, it occurs in about 8 percent of males and only about 0.4 percent of females[1]. Isolated communities with a restricted gene pool sometimes produce high proportions of color blindness, including the less usual types. Examples include rural Finland, Hungary, and some of the Scottish islands. In the United States, about 10 million men, which is about 7 percent of the male population and about 0.4 percent of the female population either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently (2006, Howard Hughes Medical Institute). It has been found that more than 95 percent of all variations in human color vision involve the red and green receptors in male eyes. It is very rare for males or females to be “blind” to the blue end of the spectrum.

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Causes of color blindness

There are many types of color blindness. The most common variety are hereditary (genetic) photoreceptor disorders, but it is also possible to acquire color blindness through damage to the retina, optic nerve, or higher brain areas. Higher brain areas implicated in color processing include the parvocellular pathway of the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, and visual area V4 of the visual cortex. Acquired color blindness is generally unlike the more typical genetic disorders. For example, it is possible to acquire color blindness only in a portion of the visual field but maintain normal color vision elsewhere. Some forms of acquired color blindness are reversible. Transient color blindness also occurs (very rarely) in the aura of some migraine sufferers.

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Classification of color deficiencies

• Acquired
• Congenital

• Dichromacy

• Protanopia
• Deuteranopia
• Tritanopia

• Anomalous trichromacy

• Protanomaly
• Deuteranomaly
• Tritanomaly

• Monochromacy

• Rod monochromacy
• Achromatopsia

The normal human retina contains two kinds of light sensitive cells: the rod cells (active in low light) and the cone cells (active in normal daylight). Normally, there are three kinds of cones, each containing a different pigment. The cones are activated when the pigments absorb light. The absorption spectra of the pigments differ; one is maximally sensitive to short wavelengths, one to medium wavelengths, and the third to long wavelengths (their peak sensitivities are in the blue, yellowish-green, and yellow regions of the spectrum, respectively). It is important to realize that the absorption spectra of all three systems cover much of the visible spectrum, so it is incorrect to refer to them as “blue“, “green” and “red” receptors, especially because the “red” receptor actually has its peak sensitivity in the yellow. The sensitivity of normal color vision actually depends on the overlap between the absorption spectra of the three systems: different colors are recognized when the different types of cone are stimulated to different extents. For example, red light stimulates the long wavelength cones much more than either of the others, but the gradual change in hue seen as wavelength reduces is the result of the other two cone systems being increasingly stimulated as well.

The different kinds of color blindness result from one or more of the different cone systems either not functioning at all, or functioning in an unusual way. When one cone system is compromised, dichromacy results. The most frequent forms of human color blindness result from problems with either the middle or long wavelength sensitive cone systems, and involve difficulties in discriminating reds, yellows, and greens from one another. They are collectively referred to as “red-green color blindness”, though the term is an over-simplification and somewhat misleading. Other forms of color blindness are much rarer. They include problems in discriminating blues from yellows, and the rarest forms of all, complete color blindness or monochromacy, where one cannot distinguish any color from grey, as in a black-and-white movie or photograph.

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Red-green color blindness

There are several types of red-green color blindness:

• Protanopia: Lacking the long-wavelength sensitive retinal cones, those with this condition are unable to distinguish between colors in the green-yellow-red section of the spectrum. They have a neutral point at a wavelength of 492 nm—that is, they cannot discriminate light of this wavelength from white. Their sensitivity to light in the orange and red part of the spectrum is also reduced. Very few people have been found who have one normal eye and one protanopic eye. These unilateral dichromats report that with only their protanopic eye open, they see wavelengths below the neutral point as blue and those above it as yellow. This is a rare form of color blindness.
• Deuteranopia: Lacking the medium-wavelength cones, those affected are again unable to distinguish between colors in the green-yellow-red section of the spectrum. Their neutral point is at a slightly longer wavelength, 498 nm. This is one of the rarer forms of colorblindness making up about 1% of the male population, also known as Daltonism after John Dalton. (Dalton’s diagnosis was confirmed as deuteranopia in 1995, some 150 years after his death, by DNA analysis of his preserved eyeball.) Deuteranopic unilateral dichromats report that with only their deuteranopic eye open, they see wavelengths below the neutral point as blue and those above it as yellow.
• Protanomaly: Having a mutated form of the long-wavelength pigment, whose peak sensitivity is at a shorter wavelength than in the normal retina, protanomalous individuals are less sensitive to red light than normal. This means that they are less able to discriminate colors, and they do not see mixed lights as having the same colors as normal observers. They also suffer from a darkening of the red end of the spectrum. This causes reds to reduce in intensity to the point where they can be mistaken for black. Protanomaly is a fairly rare form of color blindness, making up about 1% of the male population.
• Deuteranomaly: Having a mutated form of the medium-wavelength pigment. The medium-wavelength pigment is shifted towards the red end of the spectrum resulting in a reduction in sensitivity to the green area of the spectrum. Unlike protanomaly the intensity of colors is unchanged. This is the most common form of color blindness, making up about 6% of the male population.

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Dichromacy and anomalous trichromacy

Protanopes and deuteranopes are dichromats; that is, they can match any color they see with some mixture of just two spectral lights (whereas normally humans are trichromats and require three lights). Those with protanomaly or deuteranomaly are trichromats, but the color matches they make differ from the normal: In order to match a given spectral yellow light, protanomalous observers need more red light in a red/green mixture than a normal observer, and deuteranomalous observers need more green. They are called anomalous trichromats.

Protanomaly and deuteranomaly can be readily observed using an instrument called an anomaloscope, which mixes spectral red and green lights in variable proportions, for comparison with a fixed spectral yellow. If this is done in front of a large audience of men, as the proportion of red is increased from a low value, first a small proportion of people will declare a match, while most of the audience sees the mixed light as greenish. These are the deuteranomalous observers. Next, as more red is added the majority will say that a match has been achieved. Finally, as yet more red is added, the remaining, protanomalous, observers will declare a match at a point where everyone else is seeing the mixed light as definitely reddish.

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Genetics of red-green color blindness

Genetic red-green color blindness affects men much more often than women, because the genes for the red and green color receptors are located on the X chromosome, of which men have only one and women have two. Such a trait is called sex-linked. Genetic females (46, XX) are red-green color blind only if both their X chromosomes are defective with a similar deficiency, whereas genetic males (46, XY) are color blind if their only X chromosome is defective.

The gene for red-green color blindness is transmitted from a color blind male to all his daughters who are heterozygote carriers and are perceptually unaffected. In turn, a carrier woman passes on a mutated X chromosome region to only half her male offspring. The sons of an affected male will not inherit the trait, since they receive his Y chromosome and not his (defective) X chromosome.

Because one X chromosome is inactivated at random in each cell during a woman’s development, it is possible for her to have four different cone types, as when a carrier of protanomaly has a child with a deuteranomalic man. Denoting the normal vision alleles by P and D and the anomalous by p and d, the carrier is PD pD and the man is Pd. The daughter is either PD Pd or pD Pd. Suppose she is pD Pd. Each cell in her body expressses either her mother’s chromosome pD or her father’s Pd. Thus her red-green sensing will involve both the normal and the anomalous pigments for both colors. Such women are tetrachromats, since they require a mixture of four spectral lights to match an arbitrary light.

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Blue-yellow color blindness

Color blindness involving the inactivation of the short-wavelength sensitive cone system (whose absorption spectrum peaks in the bluish-violet) is called tritanopia or, loosely, blue-yellow color blindness. Mutation of the short-wavelength sensitive cones is called tritanomaly. Tritanopia is equally distributed among males and females. Dr. Jeremy H. Nathans (with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute) proved that the gene coding for the blue receptor lies on chromosome 7, which is shared equally by men and women. Therefore it is not sex-linked. This gene does not have any neighbor whose DNA sequence is similar. Blue color blindness is caused by a simple mutation in this gene (2006, Howard Hughes Medical Institute).

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Monochromacy

Complete inability to distinguish any colors is called monochromacy. It occurs in three forms:

1. cone monochromacy, where only a single cone system appears to be functioning, so that no colors can be distinguished, but vision is otherwise more or less normal.
2. achromatopsia or rod monochromacy, where the retina contains no cone cells, so that in addition to the absence of color discrimination, vision in lights of normal intensity is difficult. While normally rare, achromatopsia is very common on the island of Pingelap, a part of the Pohnpei state, Federated States of Micronesia, where it is called maskun: about 1/12 of the population there has it. The island was devastated by a storm in the 18th century, and one of the few male survivors carried a gene for achromatopsia; the population is now several thousand, of whom about 30% carry this gene.
3. Color agnosia or “central achromatopsia”, where the person cannot perceive colors, even though the eyes are capable of distinguishing them. Some sources do not consider this to be true color blindness, because the failure is of perception, not of vision. It is a form of visual agnosia.

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Diagnosis

The Ishihara color test, which consists of a series of pictures of colored spots, is the test most often used to diagnose red-green color deficiencies. A figure (usually one or more Arabic digits) is embedded in the picture as a number of spots in a slightly different color, and can be seen with normal color vision, but not with a particular color defect. The full set of tests has a variety of figure/background color combinations, and enable diagnosis of which particular visual defect is present. The anomaloscope, described above, is also used in diagnosing anomalous trichromacy.

However, the Ishihara color test is criticized for containing only numerals and thus not being useful for young children, who have not yet learned to use numerals. It is often stated that it is important to identify these problems as soon as possible and explain them to the children to prevent possible problems and psychological traumas. For this reason, alternative color vision tests were developed using only symbols (square, circle, car).

Most clinical tests are designed to be fast, simple, and effective at identifying broad categories of color blindness. In academic studies of color blindness, on the other hand, there is more interest in developing flexible tests ([2], for example) to collect thorough datasets, identify copunctal points, and measure just noticeable differences.

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Treatment and management

There is generally no treatment to cure color deficiencies, however, certain types of tinted filters and contact lenses may help an individual to distinguish different colors better. Additionally, software has been developed to assist those with visual color difficulties.

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Design implications of color blindness

Color codes present particular problems for color blind people as they are often difficult or impossible for color blind people to understand.

Good graphic design avoids using color coding or color contrasts alone to express information, as this not only helps color blind people, but also aids understanding by normally sighted people. The use of Cascading Style Sheets on the world wide web allows pages to be given an alternative color scheme for color-blind readers. This color scheme generator helps a graphic designer see color schemes as seen by eight types of color blindness. It is sometimes claimed that in extreme emergencies everyone is color blind. When the need to process visual information as rapidly as possible arises, for example in a train or aircraft crash, the visual system may operate only in shades of grey, with the extra information load in adding color being dropped. This is an important possibility to consider when designing, for example, emergency brake handles or emergency phones.

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Misconceptions and compensations

Color blindness is not the swapping of colors in the observer’s eyes. Grass is never red, stop signs are never green. The color impaired do not learn to call red “green” and vice versa. However, dichromats often confuse red and green items. For example, they find it difficult to distinguish a Granny Smith from a Braeburn or the red and green of a traffic light without other cues (for example, shape or location). This is demonstrated nicely in this simulation of the two types of apple as viewed by a trichromat or by a dichromat.

Color blindness almost never means complete monochromatism. In almost all cases, color blind people retain blue-yellow discrimination, and most color blind individuals are anomalous trichromats rather than complete dichromats. In practise this means that they often retain a limited discrimination along the red-green axis of color space although their ability to separate colors in this dimension is severely reduced.

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See also

• Race-blind, sometimes also called color-blind

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External links

• Congenital Colour Vision Deficiencies, description from the University of Calgary
• Color Blindness Examples
• Color Vision Testing Made Easy, samples of this alternative test
• Colorblind Barrier-Free
• Attempts to simulate color blind vision:
  • How do things look to colorblind people?, Causes of Color — WebExhibits
  • How the world looks to a color blind person, with example images
  • VisCheck, demonstrations of color blindness and simulation software
  • ColorBlind Web Page Filter, shows how your web page looks under various forms of color blindness
  • Etre Colour Check, determine the color difference and contrast between any two colors used on your site
  • Etre Colour Blindness Simulator, upload your images and see how they look to a color blind person
• Attempts to improve images for color blind observers
  • Daltonize , adjusts images to reveal information normally hidden to dichromats.
• Accommodating Color Blindness in User Interface Design
• Color Visual Field Test Blue-Yellow and Blue-Red Visual Testing for Macular Degeneration and Optic Nerve Disease
• Color Blindness: More Prevalent Among Males
• Dr. Jeremy H. Nathans’ Bio

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References

• Morgan, MJ, Adams, A, Mollon, JD 1992 Dichromats detect colour-camouflaged objects that are not detected by trichromats. Proc Biol Sci, 248(1323), 291-5

1. ^ Dalton J, 1798 “Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours: with observations” Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 5 28-45

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness“

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与胡安军相比，另外一支队伍似乎少了创业时候的艰难。Coolbar团队于2006年2月正式组建，团队成员都是第一次创业，他们是清华大学最优秀的一群学生，具有不同的专业背景。CEO高皓和VP周昕在全球最大的咨询公司麦肯锡实习；VP曹磊有德意志银行、巴黎银行等顶尖投资银行的实习经验；CFO陈晓颖在一家领先的美资私人股权基金实习，拥有GE财务管理实习生经历；CTO崔靖宇是清华大学特 等奖学金获得者，这是清华在校学生获得的最高荣誉；技术主管董悦是清华与微软联合培养的博士生，导师为微软亚洲研究院院长沈向阳。可以肯定这些清华学子们 即使不创业也一定会成为杰出的职业精英，然而，成为一个企业家的执着梦想却使他们选择了这条梦想与汗水辉映、激情与挫折交织的创业征程。

他们使用二维条形码识别技术，通过现有的无线传播渠道，向数以百万计的手机用户发送视频短片——从而使消费者能通过他们的手机浏览企业的广告信息并可直接登录到企业的相关网站。CoolBar团队提供了一种全新的广告渠道，比传统媒体更具效率。

“CoolBar提供一种全新的广告媒介来提高效率及消费体验。这种方式令人振奋。”CoolBar 团队队长高皓对于自己的业务及创意服务信心满满，对于日益临近的第二届中国商业计划书大赛的最终决赛也做好了充分的准备。

　　来自中科院的专家团队

进入决赛的另一支队伍——北京艾视科技有限公司致力于基于互联网的视频会议和流媒体技术的开发，艾视团队的每个成员都堪称业内著名专家，其核心 成员是来自中国科学院的教授、研究员以及硕士，同时还包括来自Google的资深工程师和留美硕士。团队主要从事互联网视频会议软件和设备、IPTV、企 业即时通信系统、下载系统和下载服务等产品的开发和销售。

“视频会议市场巨大，全世界每年大约有几千亿人民币的市场。我们长期从事这个领域的开发，掌握了该领域的核心技术，并即将拥有一些专利，在该领 域具有明显的优势，因此容易获得成功，并获得快速发展。”公司产品的主要开发提供者赖丁宙认为团队的核心竞争优势源于团队雄厚的技术能力。“我们希望通过 参加此次商业计划书大赛，提高产品的知名度和美誉度，为我们进军国际市场提供一个有利的环境。我们相信参加此次大赛的经历将是我们一笔宝贵的财富。”

　　史密斯商学院校友团队

JBI嘉午生物识别科技有限公司成立于2006年，是一家致力于发展生物识别产品的公司，其产品在政府、商业、公共安全等各个领域均有广泛的应用。

JBI团队一共6人，其中3人具有美国留学背景，另外3人也都是硕士和博士。既熟悉国内市场，又掌握国际先进的管理经验及技术，这是JBI团队 的竞争优势之一。JBI参加本次大赛的另一个特殊原因是：“我们团队的核心成员毕业于史密斯商学院，”蔡先生说：“我们了解学院的实力，对学院怀有特殊的 感情。我们希望借助母校的声望提升公司的知名度，同时也希望借此获得风险投资的青睐。”

　　Sametalk 团队

Sametalk团队与中国商业计划书大赛的结缘始于上届大赛的一名获奖者。在一次创业交流会议上，Sametalk团队认识了第一届中国商业 计划书的获奖者。他们了解到，通过参加中国商业计划书大赛，这名参赛者不仅获得了丰厚的创业基金，更为重要的是，他得到了大赛评委专家的宝贵建议，而来自 史密斯商学院的教授更为他的创业发展提供了长期无私的咨询与帮助。这使Sametalk 团队立即着手准备参加大赛，他们希望能够同样抓住难得的发展机遇。“目前我们还不太方便向外界透露我们的商业创意，但是我们坚信我们一定能打动现场的专 家。”

“史密斯商学院一直致力于为中国的数字经济时代培养世界级的商业创意和商业领袖。”史密斯商学院院长 Howard Frank表示，“中国商业计划书大赛是一个培育商业创意和商业奇才的绝佳舞台。我会来中国参加总决赛，并期待选手们在决赛中都有精彩的表现。”

可以预见，中国商业计划书大赛决赛的五支参赛队伍的终极决战势必精彩纷呈。

Here is a practical step-by-step formula for easy paper acceptance:

1. Scan CVPR, ECCV/ICCV, or NIPS for the algorithms they use. Pick one that
the SIGGRAPH audience has not heard of yet. This is not too difficult, CVPR
is huge.

2. (This is the creative step)
INVENT A “CUTE PROBLEM” THAT IS HAS NO PRACTICAL VALUE. It does not even need
to be a problem in graphics. But if you choose an area in graphics that has
possible practical value, the reviewers will kill it in a second. We’re smart
and can easily detect any true relevance, and we want to save those problems
for ourself.

Example: do texture synthesis on some sort of spline or manifold that is
little used. Apply someone’s vision segmentation code to make a system that
would allow even your grandmother to make a video of a virtual fishtank from
clips downloaded from the web. Build a clever device for capturing the BRDF
of some phenomenon that is of little interest.

I’m not going to give you any better examples, because I have to admit that
this step is not trivial. But by definition it is not as difficult as getting
a relevant paper accepted to SIGGRAPH, since that is impossible.

3. Download the Matlab code from the identified CVPR or NIPS papers.

4. Add a scale parameter. Now you have an innovative new algorithm.

5. Apply it to the bunny and the dragon.

6. Put ATTITUDE into the video narration. The tone of voice in the video
should convey how both clever you were to download that Matlab code, and how
effortless it was. Make it seem so simple that anyone can do it, yet so
clever that only a SIGGRAPH author could have thought of it.

I have had papers rejected, and one accepted. Trust me, it does work.

源出于网友liangyue的大作。
始见这位工程师在joke版每见一个mm写的笑话必然re上一段文章如下

***************************************
哈哈，你好可爱哦。
认识一下，我是清华旁边那个大学毕业的，
现在做it工程师，税后收入5500/m，
身高176，体重76，qq号：8082790
你的qq号是多少啊
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后来有人把它翻译成英文
**************************************
haha, You are so lovely.
Let me introduce myself:I graduated from the university near Tsinghua.
Now I am an IT engineer.My income:￥5500 per month
length:176cm weight:76kg My QQ Number:8082790
What about yours?
**************************************

还有古代版：
**************************************************
这个娘子好可爱啊！
介绍一下，我是岳簏书院旁边那个私塾毕业的
身高七尺，体重150斤
现在工部当差，月收入50两（税后）
可以把你QQ号告诉我吗？
**************************************************

鲜橙多

鲜橙多是某一篇笑话的题目大概内容就是讲
有个女孩开不了鲜橙多。让旁边的男孩来帮
忙。然后很多jokers分别以第一人称模拟了
男孩和被开的鲜澄多。这种代入手法的搭讪。
在以后很长的一段时间了。。在版面上充斥
着。随着大家开始觉得厌倦。然后沉寂下去
了。但是这个鲜橙多的题目也被引申为这种
第一人称代入写法的笑话。原系列被收录在
精华区x-5-12-3-4。

新警察

出处来之于以下这篇文章。由新警察这个名词衍生出其他很多名词如。。新水手
新斑竹。。新战务。。意思都是出了一些很菜的错误。。只是开玩笑。
被取笑的人不要介意。

> >> 上班刚一周,刚穿上警服的小五决定犒劳犒劳自己,到剧院看电影。买票的队伍排
得长长的,小五舒口气,排到最后。
> >>〉 　　“新警察吧？”旁边一个人问。
> >>〉 　　小五纳闷：“你咋知道？
> >>〉 　　“咳,老警察哪有排队买票的。”
> >>〉 　　“哦。”小五明白了,径直走到售票口前,递上钱说：“我买一张票。”
> >>〉 　　“新警察吧？”窗口里的人笑了。
> >>〉 　　“你咋知道？”
> >>〉 　　“老警察哪有掏钱买票的,你直接进吧,没人敢拦。”
> >>〉 　　“哦。”小五又长了见识,一试,果然没人拦。
> >>〉 　　进了剧场,小五到楼下随便找了个位子坐下。屁股还没坐稳,旁边就有人
>问：“新警察吧？”
> >>〉 　　真是奇了怪了,小五心里疑惑,嘴上还硬：“谁说的！”
> >>〉 　　“人家老警察都在楼上看电影,楼下的都是你这样的新警察。”
> >>〉 　　小五到楼上一看,可不是吗,这儿有不少警察呢。
> >>〉 　　小五挑了个位子坐下,没多久,电影就开了。旁边的一个警察扭头看了他一
>眼,
> >>冷冷的说：“新警察吧？”
> >>〉 　　“你咋能看出我是新警察？”
> >>〉 　　“老警察哪有你那样规规矩矩坐着看电影的,得像我这样。”
> >>〉 　　小五学着老警察,把两只脚翘起来,架在前排人的脖子上,果然舒服了许多,
>找到
> >>些当警察的感觉。
> >>〉 　　电影演了一半,小五有些内急,便往卫生间赶。在卫生间门口,被一个工作人
>员
> >>拦住了：“新警察吧？”
> >>〉 　　小五还是纳闷：“我脑门上又没写字,你咋知道？”
> >>〉 　　“哪有警察还到这儿,人家都是从楼上往楼下尿,你一看就是新警察。”
> >>〉 　　小五好惭愧,自己差点给警察丢了人。他站到二楼边上,朝着楼下滋出一股
>来……
> >>
> >>〉 　　“嗨,楼上尿尿的是新警察吧！”楼下突然有人大声喊。
> >>〉 　　“……”小五探着身子往下看。
> >>〉 　　“看啥看,人家老警察一尿就是一片,哪像你这个新警察,就往我一个人头上
> >>浇！”
> >>〉 　　“……￥＃·＊＆……”
> >>〉
> >>〉
> >>〉 续：
> >>〉 　　小五心情郁闷,在马路上找了个小姐想温存一番。一番摸索之后,小姐问
>道：
> >>“新警察吧！ ”
> >>〉 　　小五听的有点头晕,“怎么啦？”
> >>〉 　　“老警察哪有这样有礼貌的,都是霸王硬上弓的。”
> >> 〉 　　给小姐上完弓之后,小五决定再不给人民警察丢人了,
> >>〉 　　小姐费也不付,吧台费也不结 ,大摇大摆的往出走。
> >>〉 　　老板扭头看了看他说：“新警察吧？”
> >>〉 　　小五彻底快崩溃了,掐住老板的脖子问：“怎么这样你都能看出来？”
> >>〉 　　老板：“人家老警察不但白玩,走的时候还要收保护费呢！
> >>〉 　　小五心想：靠！！新警察也是警察呀！
> >>〉 　　于是对着老板说：把保护费给我！！！
> >>〉 　　老板说：新警察吧？
> >>〉 　　小五：。。。。
> >>〉 　　老板：人家老警察都是叫我们送费上门,哪有亲自来收的？
> >>〉 　　小五受到歌厅老板的羞辱,决定拿出警察的威严,给老板一点难堪。
> >>〉 　　听着隔壁传来的淫声浪语,小五一脚踢开紧闭的门,
> >>〉 　　对里面一对赤身裸体的男女厉声喝道：“都别动,我是警察！”
> >>〉 　　女的懒洋洋地坐起,搂着那男人斜着眼对小五说：“新警察吧？”
> >>〉 　　男人也说：“他是新警察。”
> >>〉 　　小五又厉声问这对狗男女：“你们怎么知道我是新警察？”
> >>〉 　　女人嘴一撇指着身边的男人道：“哪有老警察不认识他们局长的？”
> >>〉 　　小五一听是局长扭头就跑,出门就撞一个人怀里,
> >>〉 　　一看是个衣冠楚楚的先生,连忙道歉,
> >>〉 　　那人一笑,”新警察吧”
> >>〉 　　小五快炸了”你也知道?”
> >>〉 　　”我是这的经理,老警察没一个不认识我的”
> >>〉 　　小五匆匆逃出歌厅,出门就看见路灯下一人在撬自行车,
> >>〉 　　他跑了过去,捉着那人要回警局
> >>〉 　　那人一瞥”新警察吧?”
> >>〉 　　”不是!!,跟我回去!”
> >>〉 　　”还不是,老警察哪管这事”
> >>〉 　　”新警察怎么的了,新警察新形象!”
> >>〉 　　”呵,这话我在你局长还是新警察的时候就听过了.”
> >>〉 　　小五开着警车径往朋友家,一路是风驰电掣,好不惬意,在街道拐弯出,一个
>人骑
> >>着辆自行车突然从暗处冒出来,
> >>〉 　　小五踩刹车不及,“砰”的一声,自行车连人一起飞了出去,小五慌忙下车,
>走向前
> >>一看,那人的腿部不停的有血冒出,地上已有一大滩血迹了。
> >>〉 　　小五二话没说,抱起那人就往车子那儿走,那人呻吟着问小五：“同志,新警
>察
> >>吧”,
> >>〉 　　小五纳闷：今天怎么每个人都问我是不是新警察,我今天是不是撞邪了？
> >>〉 　　那人呻吟着接着说道：“老警察哪管撞的是什么,拉着笛就走了,哪象你还
>停车
> >>看我,害得我现在这么痛苦……”,还没说完,那人就昏了过去。
> >>〉 　　小五回家闲得心慌,来上”青年话题”读帖子,顺便注册了个ID叫“河边”
> >>〉 　　007跑过来问:“新警察吧?”
> >>〉 　　小五慌了,都道互联网上没人知道你是一条狗,怎么007连新老警察都能看出
>来?
> >>
> >>〉 　　忙发贴问:“你怎么知道?”
> >>〉 　　007回贴到:“老警察来这里都是卧底的,注册ID起码也得叫个 ‘河底’’
>什么
> >>的。”
> >>〉 　　小五决心洗心革面,发誓做个老警察。
> >>〉 　　一天,他路过一个烟摊,上去对烟贩说：“这两条“中华”我带走了”,说着
>就拿
>起
> >>两条“中华”。烟贩一看,笑笑说：“新警察吧”。小五说：“他娘的,你怎么知道
>的？
>”烟
> >>贩说：“老警察从来不拿摊上的香烟,他们都知道是假烟。老警察都说,给我后面拿
>两条
> >>中华来。”
> >>〉 　　小五还拿着香烟离开烟滩后,心想这烟自己吸了也白费,还不如去找地方换
>点钱
> >>去呢.于是就走到一家烟酒店
> >>〉 　　”老板来把这两条烟给退掉”
> >>〉 　　”你想要多少钱”
> >>〉 　　小五想了想,决不能让他看出我是新警察
> >>〉 　　”一千块一条”
> >>〉 　　小五放下烟拿了钱就走
> >>〉 　　老板说:
> >>〉 　　”你是新警察吧,老警察都是拿走钱不留烟的

黄花鱼

2005年3月15日，joke版网友bccb发了一则名为《理科的mm》的原创：

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发信人: bccb (北京市商业银行), 信区: Joke
标  题: 理科的mm(原创)
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Mar 14 13:19:22 2005), 站内

晚上给mm做了黄花鱼吃,mm平时极其懒，从来不做饭，也不会做
这次看到了黄花鱼，于是觉得显呗自己的时侯来了，于是一副
极其博学的姿态说：“理论上讲，咱们吃得黄花鱼都是死的，
因为黄花鱼是深海鱼类，捞出来就会死，但是在一些规格
高的地方还是能吃到活黄花的，知道为什么？”
我说：“不知道”
mm曰：“那是因为他们打捞黄花鱼的时侯，用个箱子在深海里捞的”
我曰：“这样鱼就不死了？？？”
mm曰：“是阿，这样打捞上来后箱子里的压力就是深海的压力，鱼就不会死”

天哪！这就是清华理学硕士学位的mm阿！
也号称当年高考物理考了100多分的人阿

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紧接着引发了众多网友关于物理问题的讨论，版面顿时大浪滔天，水势汹涌，
一介惊爱因斯坦泣牛顿的清华土著民科、非土著民科、民科爱好者……纷纷浮出水面。

于理科mm事件次日，又引起了关于“光速火车”、“光速黄花鱼鱼缸”、为理科mm争辩
等众多问题的争论……

黄花鱼一词从此成为JOKE学术爱好者们略带讽刺口吻的口头禅。

黄花鱼事件具体路径 x-5-12-3-9

Fastest supercomputer to be built

Currently, BlueGene/L is the most powerful computer in the world

Computer giant IBM will build the world’s most powerful supercomputer at a US government laboratory.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5322704.stm

The machine, codenamed Roadrunner, could be four times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM.

The new computer is a “hybrid” design, using both conventional supercomputer processors and the new “cell” chip designed for Sony’s PlayStation 3.

Roadrunner will be installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

The laboratory is owned by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Eventually the machine could be used for a programme that ensures the US nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe and reliable, the DOE said in a statement.

Using supercomputers to simulate how nuclear materials age negates arguments for the resumption of underground nuclear testing.

Peak speeds

The new machine will be able to achieve “petaflop speeds,” said IBM. One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

Running at peak speed, it will be able to crunch through 1.6 thousand trillion calculations per second.

TOP FIVE SUPERCOMPUTERS   Blue Gene/L, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. (131,072 processors) BGW Blue Gene, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (40,960 processors) ASC Purple, Department of Energy, USA (12,208 processors) Columbia, NASA Ames Research Center, USA (10,160 processors) Tera-10, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (CEA), France (8,704 processors) Source: Top 500 Supercomputers

By comparison, BlueGene/L is capable of mere “teraflop” (trillion calculations per second) speeds.

Installed at the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and also used for the DOE’s Stockpile Stewardship Program, it has achieved 280.6 teraflops and is theoretically capable of 367 teraflops.

Roadrunner should be capable of much more. It will achieve its superfast performance using a hybrid design, built with off-the-shelf components.

The computer will contain 16,000 standard processors working alongside 16,000 “cell” processors, designed for the PlayStation 3 (PS3).

Each cell chip consists of eight processors controlled by a master unit that can assign tasks to each member of the processing team. Each cell is capable of 256 billion calculations per second.

The power of the cell chip means Roadrunner needs far fewer processors than its predecessors.

Spare power

This is not the first attempt by scientists to harness the power of the cell.

In August, scientists at Stanford University in California announced plans to distribute a program that could run on gamers’ PS3s.

The cell processor was originally designed for Sony’s PlayStation 3

The folding@home program would tap the cell’s spare processing power to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affect diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

This distributed computing method uses each individual machine to process a small amount of data, with results fed back over the internet to a central machine where they can be viewed together.

The Stanford researchers say that 10,000 consoles running the program would give a performance equivalent to one petaflop. The team hopes eventually to enlist 100,000 machines.

Although a network of this size would in theory out-perform Roadrunner, the two systems would be used to solve different types of problem.

Computer talk

Both involve huge sets of data that are split into smaller packets to make them more manageable.

On a distributed computing network these small packets can be processed independently, with results brought together at key stages of a project.

For example a PC running the SETI@home project, which examines thousands of hours of radio telescope signals for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence, processes just a small chunk of data.

Finding a signal does not depend on the outcome of other PCs running the program.

However, on a supercomputer like Roadrunner, the different units must be able to “talk” with each other all of the time, which is vital for applications such as weather simulation which feature a huge number of constantly changing and interacting variables.

When Roadrunner is finished in 2008 it will cover 12,000 square feet (1,100 square metres) of floor space at Los Alamos National Laboratory

IBM says it will start shipping the new supercomputer later this year.

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WN这边的项目快要结束，呼…………….

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