Illumination Company Information Type Division Founded January 17, 2007; 17 years ago Headquarters Santa Monica, California, U.S. Founder(s) Chris Meledandri

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Illumination (formerly known as Illumination Entertainment) is an American computer animation studio, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007. Illumination is owned by Meledandri and the Illumination brand is co-owned by Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Meledandri produces the films, while Universal finances and distributes them. The studio is the creator of the Despicable Me, Hop The Secret Life of Pets and Sing franchises and the film adaptations of Dr. Seuss' books The Lorax and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Minions, characters from the Despicable Me series, are the mascots of the studio.

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Meledandri left his post as President of 20th Century Fox Animation in early Dreamworks and Pixar 2007 where he supervised or executive produced movies including Ice Age (2002), its sequel Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Madagascar (2005), Cars (2006), and Horton Hears a Who! (2008). After leaving, he founded Illumination Entertainment. By 2008, a deal was announced positioning Illumination as NBC Universal’s family entertainment arm that would produce one to two films a year starting in 2010. As an independent production company, Illumination retains creative control and Universal exclusively distributes the films. During the Summer of 2011, Illumination acquired the animation department of the French animation and visual effects studio Mac Guff, which animated Despicable Me (2010) and The Lorax (2012), and formed Illumination Mac Guff.

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When waves meet a gap or an edge in a barrier, they continue through the gap or past the edge of the barrier. This may seem obvious but what happens on the far side of the gap or barrier is not so straightforward.

Waves cause a disturbance of the medium through which they travel. This allows them to carry energy. The quantity of energy carried relates to the amplitude of the wave.

The extent of the spreading (diffraction) depends on how the width of the gap compares to the wavelength of the waves. The wavelength is unchanged after diffraction.

Diffraction affects radio and television signals. Long wave radio signals are much less affected by buildings, hills, tunnels etc. than those of short wave or VHF radio, or television.

A gap width similar to the wavelength of the waves passing through causes a lot of spreading, eg sound waves passing through a doorway.