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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Foundation ActionScript Animation
    sub title: Making Things Move!
  title info:
    title: Friends of Ed
  name:
    name part: Peters, Keith.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 400 p. online resource.
  abstract: Sure you can animate using motion tweens—in fact, we'll help you do that with our Flash Cartoon Animation book—but isn't there something extra special in making things move with just a few lines of code? In this book Keith Peters guides you through some basic animation theory and then demystifies the math and physics behind creating realistic animation, looking at trigonometry, velocity and acceleration, and bouncing & friction. This book will teach you how to use Flash ActionScript to move the objects in your movies, rather than letting Flash's tween engine do it for you. The benefit of this is smaller, more realistic, more dynamic interactive movies that seem to come alive on your screen. Almost all of the code featured in this book will work fine in either Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8, and with a few minor adjustments, most of it can even be applied to Flash MX. Although the text covers many advanced math and physics concepts, making for very realistic motion, there's no need to worry, even if you're a relative newcomer to programming and the last math class you took was in high school (and even if you barely remember that!). This book first covers everything you need to know to get started: the principles of animation, and the basics of ActionScript, trigonometry, and Flash rendering methods. You'll work your way through slowly, from using code to move a single object across the screen to creating complex systems that really push Flash's capabilities, with topics covered including collision detection, particle attraction, and kinematics. The book concludes with looking at 3D animation techniques, including building a basic 3D engine, 3D lines, fills and solids, and matrix math. Once you come to grips with the ideas presented here, you'll find yourself creating all manner of exciting animations and games!
  table of contents: Actionscripted Animation Basics -- Basic Animation Concepts -- Basics of Actionscript for Animation -- Trigonometry for Animation -- Rendering Techniques -- Basic Motion -- Velocity and Acceleration -- Boundaries and Friction -- User Interaction: Moving Objects Around -- Advanced Motion -- Easing and Springing -- Collision Detection -- Coordinate Rotation and Bouncing Off Angles -- Billiard Ball Physics -- Particle Attraction and Gravity -- Forward Kinematics: Making Things Walk -- Inverse Kinematics: Dragging and Reaching -- 3D Animation -- 3D Basics -- 3D Lines and Fills -- Backface Culling and 3D Lighting -- Additional Techniques -- Matrix Math -- Tips and Tricks.
  note: by Keith Peters.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Software engineering
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
  classification: QA76.758
  classification: 005.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781430200819
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0081-9
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