COMPUTER ANIMATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
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1984-04-01
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The computer has been used as a tool to aid animation artists in a
number of ways; from controlling rostrum cameras to producing complete
animation sequences from three dimensional descriptions of real objects.
This paper describes Graphicsland, a suite of programs developed
to explore the medium of 3D animation. Graphicsland recognizes
that there is no single "correct" approach to solving the problems
of design, storage, movement, rendering and production of animated
film and video. Instead a variety of techniques are offered and the design
of the system is such that it may easily be extended to incorporate new
algorithms and graphical databases in the future.
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Computer Science