• 1. Animation and Interactivity
  • 1.1. Animation
    • 1.1.1. Definition Animation
    • 1.1.2. Animation Techniques
    • 1.1.3. Animation Parameter
    • 1.1.4. Unit-Summary
  • 1.2. Animation and Cartography
  • 1.3. Interactivity
  • 1.4. Interactivity and Cartography
  • 1.5. Summary
  • 1.6. Glossary
  • 1.7. Bibliography
  • 1.8. Metadata

1.1.4. Unit-Summary

"Animation is the optical illusion of motion created by the consecutive display of images of static elements." (Wikipedia)

According to (1997), there are three main techniques to create animations:

• Frame by frame animation: Several frames are created and finally combined into an animation.
• Keyframe animation: Keyframes are created and the inbetweens are automatically created by the computer by interpolating the keyframes.
• Procedural or algorithmic animation: Whole animation is created by programs

Several graphical attributes can be animated:

• Colour
• Opacity
• Stroke-Width
• Fill-Pattern
• Stroke-Pattern
• Filter Parameter

The geometry and position of objects can be animated as well:

• Transformation
• Position
• Object shape / geometry

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