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Animation

Date Added: June 09, 2007 07:53:29 AM

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The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames.
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This animation moves at 10 frames per second.

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision. This could be anything from a flip book to a motion picture film.