Animation stand control system

Details Animation stand control system Animation stand control system

1979-05-22

1980-07-29

Hayes, Monroe H.

Optics: motion pictures

Special effects

Animation

352 50, 352 54, G03B 2132

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active

042148235

ABSTRACT:
A control system for an animation stand including a stored program computer for monitoring and storing a plurality of manually produced positions of a camera and a support relative to each other and for calculating a plurality of driver command signals from said stored positions and stored time frame or control data to produce a sequence of motions of said camera and said support relative to each other. A manually induced velocity vector is used by the computer to calculate driver command signals to effectuate the manually produced positions. Each axis of motion per time frame may be individually manually produced.

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patent: 3902798 (1975-09-01), Trumbull et al.
Computer Animation Techniques, JSMPTE, Mar. 1971, by Stephen A. Kallis, Jr., pp. 145-156.

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