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From: dalm@warwick.UUCP (D A L Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Looking for Animation Package
Keywords: Animation, Inbetweening, Spline
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Date: 22 Apr 89 22:58:00 GMT
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Reply-To: dalm@emerald.UUCP (David Michael)
Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
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In article <390029@hpfcdq.HP.COM> blaho@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Bruce Blaho) writes:
>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.

I friend of mine has writen such a program. It runs on Sun 3 or 4 under
Sunview. You can draw free-hand pictures and then using spline techniques the
program interpolates the inbetween frames. You can then animate the generated
images to form a mini-movie.

If you are interested the e-mail address is:

        olly@warwick.cs

David
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