# Animation Techniques in BRL-CAD

## Lee A. Butler, Christine Murdza
U. S. Army Research Laboratory

##### ARL TR-313, December, 1993

##### An archive of this entire document is available as
ftp://ftp.arl.mil/brl-cad/anim_tut_html.tar.gz

- Abstract

1. Introduction
   - Preliminaries
2. Simple Camera Motion
   - Key Frames
   - Generating Key Frames with MGED
   - Key Frame Interpolation
   - Building the RT Animation Script
   - Previewing Animations with MGED
   - Creating Postage Stamp Animations
3. Object Motion
   - Matrix Manipulations
   - The RT Matrix Operations for Animation
   - Preparing an Animation with Motion
4. Making Frames for Videotape
   - Frame Rate
   - Video Tape Formats
   - Image Size and Quality
   - Image Aspect Ratio
   - Color Selection
   - Computational Requirements
   - Storage Requirements
5. Computing Video Frames
6. Recording Videotape
7. Conclusion

- Bibliography
- Appendix A
- Appendix B

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