Copyright: (c) Copyright 1987-1988 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Category: HCI03 Animation
Journal: Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract: Algorithm animation has a growing role in computer-aided
        algorithm design, documentation and debugging, because
        interactive graphics is a richer channel than text for
        communication.  Most animation is currently done
        laboriously by hand, and it often has the character of
        canned demonstrations with restricted user interaction.
        Animus is a system that allows for easy construction of
        an animation with minimal concern for lower-level
        graphics programming.  Constraints are used to describe
        the appearance and structure of a picture as well as how
        those pictures evolve in time.  The implementation and
        support of temporal constraints are substantive
        extensions to previous constraint languages that had only
        allowed for the specification of a static state.  Use of
        the Animus system is demonstrated in the creation of
        animations of dynamic mechanical and electrical circuit
        simulations, sorting algorithms, problems in operating
        systems, and geometric curve drawing algorithms.
Number: 3
Pages: 275-307
Author: Robert Adamy Duisberg
Series: Articles
Title: Animation Using Temporal Constraints: An Overview of the
        Animus System
Date: 1987-1988
Volume: 3