A Computer Animation of Continental Drift

Darwin's continental drift

Lisbon is grandly celebrating the Darwin anniversaries, but to the east in Turkey things are different.

Alfred Wegener and continental drift

Computer Animation

Animation is the production of consecutive images, which, when displayed, convey a feeling of motion. Animated images are almost magical in their ability to capture our imagination. By telling a compelling story, astounding with special effects, or mesmerizing with abstract motion, animation can infuse a sequence of inert images with the illusion of motion and life. Creating this illusion, eith...

From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics

SINCE THE l6TH CENTURY, CARTOGRAPHERS HAVE NOTICED THE jigsaw-puzzle fit of the continental edges. Since the 19th century, geologists have known that some fossil plants and animals are extraordinarily similar across the globe, and some sequences of rock formations in distant continents are also strikingly alike. At the turn of the 20th century, Austrian geologist Eduard Suess proposed the theor...

A Computer Aided Animation System

Development of the computer aided animation system was begun in the winter of 1910. The system was designed to produce visual aid materials tor Engineering Graphics, such as orthographic and perspective projection, dihedral angles, piercing-points, etc. It was thus required that a user be able to input objects precisely and to manipulate them with translations, rotations, foldouts etc. in 3-D s...