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From: blaho@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Bruce Blaho)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Looking for Animation Package
Message-ID: <390029@hpfcdq.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 89 14:03:34 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO
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I am looking for an animation editor  available in the public domain (or
at least  reasonably  cheap.)  What I would  like to be able to do is to
specify  the  motion  for  several  objects,  perhaps  in  terms  of key
positions,  starting  and  stopping  accelerations,  etc.,  and have the
package interpolate  intermediate  positions and produce some reasonable
output, like an ASCII file, which scripts the objects'  motion.  I would
like to do my own  rendering,  so it is  essential  that the  output  is
comprehensible enough to link to other packages.

Any suggestions?  I have heard a little bit about a package called TWIXT
(by Julian  Gomez, I  believe.)  Does  anyone  have any  information  or
experience with this package?

Thanks.

Bruce Blaho
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