Internal Report DCA97-011
The production of computer animation without the presence of a programmer requires unobtrusive task-centered interaction between user and system. This paper presents TOOKIMA 2.0 (a Tool Kit for scripting computer Modelled Animation), an interactive scripting environment for describing kinematic computer-modelled animations. It supports the production of animation at two distinct levels of abstraction. In the lower level, users create animations by writing scripts as a specialized language. In the upper level, users can generate scripts interactively, without knowing the underlying scripting language.The environment is designed so as to introduce basic notions of programming in the upper level, and thus to lead users into acquiring basic programming skills needed for operation in the lower level.
Keywords: Computer Modeled Animation, End-User Programming, Graphical User Interfaces
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