Animating equations on the Web

These days, a visit to the World Wide Web usually involves a visual treat of things that move, blink, fade in or out, and morph from one shape to another. They sometimes even make noise. Banner advertisements are particularly notorious for using these effects to grab your attention. There are other good uses for animation, however, not the least of which is to illustrate a technological or scientific principle that would otherwise be hard to get across in a static, 2D graphic. The paper discusses the use of Macromedia´s Flash software to create and incorporate low bandwidth animations that give visitors considerable flexibility in how they interact with the Web page