Integrating a scripting language into an interactive animation system

STORYBOARD is a scripting language for an interactive computer animation system. The language was designed to be simple in its use, to support various animation techniques provided by the animation environment, and to support procedural abstraction of animation. It is easily expandable and lends itself to the integration of interactive features of the system. Some of the important aspects of design and implementation are discussed, like the time-table like structure of programs, the embedding of a message mechanism into the language, animation data types and their application, concurrent execution and local time, and recompilation of an animation specified interactively into a script.