[nzlug] NZOSS Patent Analysis Project - could use a hand here...

[Simon Bridge]

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 02:32 +1300, Timothy Musson wrote: 
> Simon Bridge, 2008-03-15 01:02:15:

> > This appears to me to be the normal way that applications create
> > animations - but I need a clear example.
> 
> Sorry if this isn't relevant - I'm posting it just in case.
> 
> In the early 1980s, Usborne published a bunch of computer books for kids
> using ZX81s, Vic20s, C64s, BBC Micros, etc.
> 
> One of those books had a program written in BASIC, where you defined a
> start shape and an end shape (points and lines), specified the number of
> frames you wanted, and the program drew all the "in between"[1] frames.
> 
>   [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweening
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is the book I'm talking about:

This may be good enough... I suspect the difference between specifying
times and specifying number of frames is pretty trivial.

However, anything which labels frame-position in milliseconds and uses a
slider would be decisive.