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The Art and Science puter Animation





Stuart Mealing
First published in Paperback in United Kingdom in 1998 by
Intellect Books
School of Art and Design, Earl Richards Road North, Exeter EX26AS, UK




Copyright © 1998 Intellect Ltd.




All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.




Consulting editor: Masoud Yazdani
Copy editor: Cate Foster

Cover design: Sam Robinson
Text layout: Stuart Mealing




A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library




ISBN 1-871516-71-4




Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cromwell Press, Wiltshire
For my mother
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS




I am pleased to offer my thanks for help in connection with the production of this book

to:




Roger Fickling, Dr. Wendy Milne and Coral Mealing for the many ments
and suggestions passed on after reading the draft copy of the book, many of which have
been acted upon. puters Inc. for kind permission to reproduce the paper by
Galyn Susman on 'The Making of Pencil Test' as an appendix. Program Now magazine
for permission to reproduce passages from an issue. Paul Hooker of 3C Systems,
Worcester, Bill Allen at Gromark Ltd (London), and Daphne Powers at Symbolics Ltd
(High be) for generously taking time to produce material used in diagrams and
plates. Mick Winning and Brian Carroll of Splash (Cardiff) for advice and for allowing
me to browse through and photograph their artwork. Mark Watt of Digital

Pictures,William Latham of IBM UK Laboratories Ltd, Craig W. Reynolds of
Symbolics Graphics Division, Karl Simms of Optomystic, Professor Eihachiro
Nakamae of Hiroshima University, Deirdre Warin at Pixar, Jarrett Cohen at University
of Illinois and Alan S