Animating objects using a declarative animation scheme

Technologies are described herein for animating objects through the use of animation schemes. An animation scheme is defined using a declarative language that includes instructions defining the animations and/or visual effects to be applied to one or more objects and how the animations or visual eff...

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Main Authors LI BARN-WAN, CHEN JEFFREY CHAO-NAN, CHEN CRYSTAL RHAN-TSOR
Format Patent
LanguageChinese
English
Published 26.09.2012
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PHYSICS
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Summary:Technologies are described herein for animating objects through the use of animation schemes. An animation scheme is defined using a declarative language that includes instructions defining the animations and/or visual effects to be applied to one or more objects and how the animations or visual effects should be applied. The animation scheme may include rules which, when evaluated, define how the objects are to be animated. An animation scheme engine is also provided for evaluating an animation scheme along with other factors to apply the appropriate animation to each of the objects. The animation scheme engine retrieves an animation scheme and data regarding the objects. The animation scheme engine then evaluates the animation scheme along with the data regarding the objects to identifythe animation to be applied to each object. The identified animations and visual effects are then applied to the objects.
Bibliography:Application Number: CN200880108170