Alhambra: a system for producing 2D animation

Author

Martin, Domingo ; Torres, Juan Carlos

Author_Institution

Dipt. de Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf., Granada Univ., Spain

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

47

Abstract

There is a great interest in producing computer animation that looks like 2D classic animation. The flat shading, silhouettes and inside contour lines are all visual characteristics that, joined to flexible expressiveness, constitute the basic elements of 2D animation. We have developed methods for obtaining the silhouettes and interior curves from polygonal models. Virtual lights is a new method for modeling the visualization of inside curves. The need for flexibility of the model is achieved by the use of hierarchical nonlinear transformations

Keywords

computer animation; data visualisation; user interfaces; 2D animation; Alhambra; computer animation; flat shading; hierarchical nonlinear transformations; inside contour lines; interior curves; polygonal models; silhouettes; two dimensional animation; virtual lights; visual characteristics; visualization; Animation; Application software; Computer graphics; Ear; Electrical capacitance tomography; Layout; Production systems; Read only memory; Rendering (computer graphics); Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Animation, 1999. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Geneva

ISSN

1087-4844

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0167-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CA.1999.781197

Filename

781197