Optics: motion pictures – Special effects – Animation
Patent
1979-05-22
1980-07-29
Hayes, Monroe H.
Optics: motion pictures
Special effects
Animation
352 50, 352 54, G03B 2132
Patent
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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Computer Animation Techniques, JSMPTE, Mar. 1971, by Stephen A. Kallis, Jr., pp. 145-156.
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