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'''Title of script: Navigation - Camera View'''

'''Author: Chirag Raman, Monisha Banerjee'''

'''Keywords: camera view, roll, pan, dolly, track'''

'''Reviewers: Namita Lobo, Leena Mulye'''

[http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/File:09_Camera_View_2.zip Click here for slides]

'''Script Update according to review on 29/11/2011'''

{| style="border-spacing:0;"
| style="border-top:0.092cm double #808080;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Visual Cue
| style="border:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Narration

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Slide 1
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Welcome to the series of Blender tutorials.

This tutorial is about Navigation – Camera view.

We shall learn how to navigate the camera in Blender 2.59.

This script has been contributed by Chirag Raman and edited by Monisha Banerjee.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Slide 2
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| After watching this tutorial,

we shall learn how to change the location of the camera to get a new camera view;

how to roll, pan, dolly and track the camera view;

and how to select a new camera view using the fly mode.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Slide 3
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| I assume that you already know how to install Blender on your system.

If not please refer to our earlier tutorials on Installing Blender.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Blender workspace open. Hover on User Perspective at top left corner of 3d view.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| By default, when Blender opens, the 3D view is in the User Perspective view.

Now, lets switch to the camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Go to View, and select Camera.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Go to view tab in the bottom left corner of the 3D panel.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"|
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Left click camera from the menu.

For keyboard shortcut, press numpad 0.

<p style="color:blue">If you are using a laptop, you need to emulate your number keys as numpad. To learn how to emulate numpad, see the tutorial on User Preferences.</p>

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Hover around the dotted box
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| This is the Camera View.

The dotted box is the field of view of the active camera.

All objects inside this dotted box will be rendered.

Render settings shall be covered in a later tutorial.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"|
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Blender allows you to position and orient the active camera to match your current view point.

Lets see how to do this.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Numpad 0
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Numpad zero to go back to the perspective view.

You see, the shortcut numpad zero is a toggle to switch-to and from the camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Hold the mouse wheel and move the mouse.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Hold the mouse wheel or the MMB and move the mouse to rotate the view to a location where you wish to place your camera.

I have selected this location.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Ctrl & Alt & Numpad 0.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Control, Alt & Num Pad zero.

The camera moves to the new location.

The 3D view switches to the camera view at the same time.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"|
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Blender also allows you to perform a few navigational actions on the camera, such as rolling, panning, tracking etc.

We shall now look at these.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click on dotted box to select the camera.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Right clicking on the dotted box to select the camera.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"|
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| From here on, you can manipulate the camera like you would manipulate any other object.

Do remember that to perform these actions you need to be in camera view.

The first action we shall see is to roll the camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press R.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press R on your keyboard to enter the object rotation mode.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Move your mouse left and right, back and forth.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Now move your mouse left to right and up and down.

By default this rotates the camera in its local z-axis, i.e. around the axis that goes into or comes out of the camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click or Press Esc on the keyboard to cancel the action.

This will take you back to your previous camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Hover left to right and up and down
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Now, the next action we shall see is panning the camera view.

Panning is in 2 directions – left to right or up and down.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press R. Then press x twice.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press R to enter the object rotation mode. Press X twice.

The first X locks the rotation to the global X axis.

The second X locks the rotation to the local X axis.

<p style="color:blue">We will discuss about global and local transform axis in detail in subsequent tutorials.</p>

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Now move the mouse up and down
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Now move the mouse up and down.

The Camera view pans up and down

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Y twice.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Now, Press Y twice.

The first y locks the rotation to the global y axis.

The second y locks the rotation to the local y axis.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Now move the mouse.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Now move the mouse left to right.

The Camera view pans left to right and vice versa

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.

|-
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"|
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Next we shall dolly the camera. There are two ways to do this

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press G. Hold the MMB or Press the Mouse Wheel and move the mouse up and down.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| First, press G.

Hold the MMB or the Mouse Wheel and move the mouse up and down.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press G. Then press Z twice. Now move the mouse.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Second way, you can move the camera along its local z axis.

Press G.

Then press Z twice to lock the camera to the local z axis.

Now moving the mouse gives the same effect.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Hover left to right and up and down
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Tracking the camera left to right or up and down involves moving it along the local X or Y axes.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press G. Then Press X twice. Now move the mouse.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press G. Now press X twice and move the mouse left to right.

The Camera view tracks left to right and vice versa

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Y twice. Now move the mouse.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Now press Y twice and move the mouse up and down.

The Camera view tracks up and down

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.

|-
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"|
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Blender also provides a fly mode for the camera.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Shift F.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Shift F to enter the fly mode.

Now you can move the camera view in three ways.

First is using the shortcut keys on the keyboard.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press W
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press W on the keyboard to zoom in.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press S
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press S to zoom out

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press A
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press A to move to the left.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press D
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press D to move to the right.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.

|-
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"|
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Second method is using the mouse wheel or scroll in fly mode to zoom in and out of the camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Shift F.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Shift F to enter the fly mode.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Scroll the mouse wheel up
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Scroll the mouse wheel upwards to zoom in.

For shortcut, press numpad +

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Scroll the mouse wheel down
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Scroll the mouse wheel downwards to zoom out.

For shortcut, press numpad -

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Right click to to go back to camera view.

|-
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"|
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Last method is using the mouse wheel or scroll in fly mode

to move the camera view left to right and vice versa.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Shift F to enter the fly mode
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press Shift F to enter the fly mode

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Press D and scroll the mouse wheel up and down
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Press D and scroll the mouse wheel up and down.

The Camera view moves left to right and vice versa.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Left click to lock the camera view
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| Left click to lock the camera view.

Now, this is your new camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Slide 4
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| So this wraps up our tutorial on Navigation - Camera View.

Now in a new file,

change the location of the camera and the camera view, roll, pan, dolly and track your camera

and use the fly mode to select a new camera view.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Slide 5
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| This Tutorial is created by Project Oscar and supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT.

More information on the same is available at the following links oscar.iitb.ac.in, and spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro.

The Spoken Tutorial Project

conducts workshops using spoken tutorials

also gives certificates to those who pass an online test.

For more details, please contact sptutemail@gmail.com

Thanks for joining us

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:none;padding:0.049cm;"| Slide 6
| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.092cm double #808080;border-left:0.092cm double #808080;border-right:0.092cm double #808080;padding:0.049cm;"| and this is Monisha from IIT Bombay signing off.

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