What Do You Call Photos Avatars With Moving Objects In It

Why do we see an object?

Because of a process called vision. Our brain is enclosed within our skull, with no direct access to the world around us. Vision is the process by which objects in the (outside our head) world, become perceptible. Vision has always been a contentious topic amongst the science community, full of discrepancies. Some “intellectuals” claim we can't actually see objects. We only see light. They are confusing vision with sight. (The process, with the outcome). Light itself is invisible. It's only objects which are visible. Vision provides an evolutionary advantage because it allows us to see predators, food, shelter from the elements and possible mates. These things all have one thing in common. They're all objects.The process involves detecting light, that part is true. But no perception occurs at this stage in the process. What happens is that every object in the universe emits energy. Light (electromagnetic radiation) is the energy carrier of the universe. We, hijack this energy to see things. Light has various wavelengths, of which a very narrow range is detectable by our eyes. We call this range, visible light, but that's a misnomer. As I said, light is not visible, it's detectable. Our eyes, like all our other senses, detect things through physical contact. Light enters our eyes and strikes our cones. This is why we only detect light that enters our eyes.The cones in our eyes, convert light into electrochemical impulses which are sent to the visual cortex. It's here that our brain builds (the world you see) representational reality. Basically, the world you see around you isn't actual reality, it's a simulation of reality and your brain is the simulator. It's only here, once the simulation is built, that our conscious mind perceives anything. It perceives the OBJECT from which the light our eyes detect, ORIGINATES. It's not the actual (outside) object we see, but the representation (inside copy) which we see.Many people don't understand this, which is why even physicists like Viktor Toth believe we see light. But as I pointed out. The purpose of vision is for us to see objects. We don't see light itself. Detecting light is part of the process, not the outcome.

Why are many UI designers using round profile pictures in their designs recently? Apple, Basecamp, & Path chose to use round user profile pictures and it seems to be a real trend.

This trend really took off around 2010 when the border-radius property was introduced with CSS3.Before border-radius, creating something simple like creating a rounded-rectangle required drawing and exporting 4 images—one for each corner—and positioning them (usually with a table element) in the corner cells of a 3x3 HTML table, like this:Creating these four corner image assets was a hassle and took forever; adjusting the radius a bit meant creating 4 new corner images.Deploying these on every profile image across a large site would be a tough sell. You could maybe use an image processing library to auto-generate rounded profile images, but this isn't very defensible considering the cost:benefit.With border-radius (angelic choir), these concerns vanish. You can now round any element for free (ie. negligible technical cost).That should explain the sudden rise in circular avatars, but it doesn't answer why, of all the elements on a typical website, are avatars often the sole focus of our shiny new circle-making powers? Aside from the fact that it's clearly become trendy to do so, I believe I can build a solid rationale for why it may actually be an effective practice:To the human brain, faces are a banquet of conscious and subconscious information. Survival pressures have evolved in us an incredible capacity for facial recognition; we learn to read and imitate faces as early as 2 days old [1]! Even a static image doesn't stop our brains from generating a myriad of impressions and judgements. Many sales pages rely on what's called social proof [2] to persuade you to trust them. The mere presence of human faces (typically smiling) can positively affect one's impressions (conscious and subconscious) of whatever product/service/information one is assessing.So our brains are engaged by faces, and faces can positively affect the way people feel when they're on your site; perhaps we should move them up in the information hierarchy? The vast majority of web layouts are made predominately of rectangles, so what better way to make them stand out than using a circle? Being the only circular element gives avatars—and by extension, human beings—a unique emphasis amongst canvas of boxes.Finally, as others have mentioned, faces are curvy and round—it's why stick figures people draw typically have circles for heads.[1] Face perception[2] Social proof

What's the difference between cartoons and animation?

Thanks for the A2A.“What’s the difference between cartoons and animation?”I grew up watching cartoons, and that’s what they were called at the time, so when I think of “cartoon,” I think of a silly, kid-friendly, colorful, seven-minute whizz-bang, slapstick, beating up kind of thing, and my iconic creator is Chuck Jones.That’s not to say others won’t define “cartoon” more broadly, but I think for many people, that’s the sort of image that comes to mind when you say “cartoon” (carried through into Sponge Bob, etc.)“Animation” to me is broader and contains “cartoon.” It would include Disney’s Snow White (which I would call an animated film), Spirited Away (i.e., “anime”), the wonderful cut-outs of Lotte Reiniger, “stop motion” (sand or paint on glass, clay), and of course everything 3D we see today (probably my favorite is still Wall-E).Of course, any animation form can be a “cartoon” style - such as Monsters Inc. or Shaun the Sheep - but the term “animation” can often be used much more broadly.Also, I did some reading and found out the name “cartoon” itself comes from “carton,” and even that name (to me) implies something a bit rougher and less refined (where as “anim�� has the root word of life itself).Anyway, that’s my take, though it’s not (to my knowledge) ever been codified by some respected and known authority. Since it’s not been codified, that leaves it up in many ways to “whatever you think it is,” which is probably a part of the reason for your arguments with friends.