Animation Techniques in BRL-CAD

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

ARL TR-313, December, 1993

• 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