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From: v134kkut@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David W Tinklepaugh)
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Subject: Re: rotoscoping
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Date: 23 Oct 90 01:57:58 GMT
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In article <13485@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes...
> 
>What is rotoscoping?  Where can I learn about it?
> 
>I have Foley and Van Dam's
>_Fundamentals_of_Interactive_Computer_Graphics_ but it doesn't say
>anything about rotoscoping. 

That is because rotoscoping has little to do with 'computer graphics' as is
most commonly discussed here.  Rotoscoping (as I know it) is taking a 
video[tape] and displaying it one frame at a time.  You then draw an picture 
over it with a computer paint package using objects in the video as a 
reference, then sending the computer drawn picture (usually excluding the 
origonall video) to another vcr, to be recorded frame by frame.

if you want to read about it I suggest looking at books on digital video effects
(DVE), video editing, or video post-production work.  
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