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Wai Wong
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Motion
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Visual Representation
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The frequency at which the flicking light source must
be repeated before it appears continuous is known as
the fusion frequency
This depends on the brightness of the light source
The brighter the light source the higher the fusion frequency
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Scan line Scan line
in Field 1 in Field 2
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Broadcast television
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Video resolution
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Conventional video systems have relative low
resolution
compare to computer screens: typical resolution of
640 480, even up to 1024 768
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Digitalising Video
There 625 scan lines in each frame, giving each scan line is
40ms=625 = 64s
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Video capture cards
Compressor/
Video processor
encoder
System bus
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Video formats
It is a software-only system
It is a software-only system
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MPEG (Motion Picture Expect Group) is a working
group under ISO
There are several versions of mpeg standard. The most
commonly used now is mpeg-1
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Animation
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Input process
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Inbetween process
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The easiest interpolation is linear interpolation
It has many limitations: the object does no move smoothly,
look unreal
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Controlling animation
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Kinematics refers to the position and velocity of
points
The ball is at the origin at time t = 0. It moves with a constant
acceleration in the direction (1,1,5) thereafter.
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Displaying animation
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Animation tools
MetaCreations Poser
It understands human motion and inverse kinematics, e.g., move an
arm the shoulders will follow.
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