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Chapter 4: A HISTORY OF COMPUTER ANIMATION 3/20/92 2 Video image digitizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 8 Digital Video Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 8 Turnkey animation systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 0 Motion Control Languages and Interactive Systems . . . . . . . . . 61 PC Animation Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 3 Current Issues including Kinematics, Dynamics, Graftals, Flocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 The simulation of applications and scientific visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..64
Chapter 4 : A HISTORY OF COMPUTER ANIMATION 3/20/92 1 A History of Computer Animation Computer animation emerged as a viable technology during the early 1960's as the still evolving digital computer was coupled with increasingly sophisticated graphical output devices . Depending upon what you decide is animation and what you decide constitutes a computer, it is easly to conclude that all animation is "computer" animation . The reason is because even classical (pre-computer) animation involves an animation languagea notational system which describe events or images over time . In a classical system, the instructions and graphical data are composed on paper, and the hardware execution is accompanied by an animation camera and camer operator-sort of a hardware/bioware combination . In a contemporary system the instructions and graphical data are composed on magnetic media, and hardware execution is accompanished. by a computer automatically . If we restrict ourselves to the post-classical phase of the medium, the first computer animations emerge in the early 1960s, depending on what you mean by a computer and by animation . The fundamentals to achieve this and milestones are detailed in sections on motion control, CRT and raster graphics, hardware and media approaches, and increasingly sophisticated software simulations of line drawing, drafting, imaging, perspective, color, opacity, lighting, and textures . Finally we review how time, the subject of our first chapter, emerged as a varible, and take a careful look at the key features of animation language, both before the computer as well as how they have evolved in processes like motion control, 3D lens and camera simulation, communications between temporal events, and editing (fig . 1) . The Origins of Animation Animated phase pictures and roll media (1828-1895) Animation predates the motion pictures and was a popular entertainment during the 19th century and sold by the thousands to the households of the industrial age . These animated phase pictures-short cycles of animation-were marketed on both disk and cylinder machines . The disk machines, such as the phenakistiscope (1828), arranged the series of discrete images 1 . Control pannel shows themes leading to the discovery of computer animation . [Jud's Hypercard art] .
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