Introduction It’s here: : :it’s finally here! For those of us designing and/or using program, algorithm, and computer science concept animation systems, the one universal environment we have yearned for is finally available. That environment is the World Wide Web in concert with standard Web browsers, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and Java. Now, educational software systems that have hi...

High Degree of Freedom Input and Large Displays for Accessible Animation Noah Lockwood Master of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2006 We explore methods of making computer animation accessible to nontechnical users by utilizing high degree–of–freedom, gestural input and visualization on a large display. Design principles are developed which guide our approa...

An important part of the current animation consists in simulating the real world. To achieve a simulation, the animator has two principal techniques available. The first is to use a model that creates the desired effect. A good example is the growth of a green plant. The second is used when no model is available. In this case, the animator produces "by hand" the real world motion to be simulate...