To address the different learning styles of students, and because students can access animation from off-campus computers, the use of digital animation in teaching cell biology has become increasingly popular. Sample processes from cell biology that are more clearly presented in animation than in static illustrations are identified. The value of animation is evaluated on whether the process bei...

We describe ESPLANADE (Expert System for PLANning Animation, Design, and Editing), a knowledge-based animation presentation planner. ESPLANADE receives as input a script generated by a separate action planner and a set of communicative goals that specify what the animation is to communicate to the viewer. The presentation plan that ESPLANADE creates is a complete description of every frame of a...

The first approach corresponds to methods heavily relied upon by the animator: rotoscopy, shape transformation, parametric keyframe animation (see Chapter 8). The second way guarantees a realistic motion by using kinematics and dynamics. The problem with this type of animation is controlling the motion produced. The third type of animation is called behavioral animation and takes into account t...

This research discerns at animation as a text by focusing on the investigation of aspects and concepts that define reality in world animation. By looking animation, clues texts can be generated contribute to understanding postmodernity framework concept representation from point view cultural studies. qualitative uses studies approach, with method intertext analysis literature interviews expert...

This paper discusses the role and the evolution of animation, simulation and scientific visualization and their relationships. Two trends are described: (1) the physical laws are well-known and their use improves the animation (2) the physical laws are not really wellknown and the animation techniques contribute to understand them. We distinguish descriptive models used to reproduce an effect w...

havior; its smoothness corresponds to our perception of motion and changes in the real world. In a UI, animation may illustrate the dynamic behavior of both interacting entities: the user and the underlying application. When changes are illustrated by a sudden switch from one visual configuration to another, the user has to deduce the causal link between the two states. Continuous animation pro...

Digital content industry is one of the Twin-Star projects in Taiwan. Among the various categories of digital contents, computer animation is the one that presents many technological challenges as well as many applications including computer games, films, TV and architectural design. Two common techniques in producing a computer animation are motion capture and procedural animation. Both approac...

Speech animation is traditionally considered as important but tedious work for most applications, especially when taking lip synchronization (lip-sync) into consideration, because the muscles on the face are complex and interact dynamically. Although there are several methods proposed to ease the burden on artists to create facial and speech animation, almost none are fast and efficient. In thi...

The PLATUS simulation environment allows for a modular description of simulation models, clearly separating aspects of behavior, statistics and animation. Each component of a model in PLATUS has its own animation interface, that describes when and which messages will be sent to a corresponding animation module. The GENGED environment was originally developed for the visual definition of visual ...