Animations by Physicists

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Animations by Physicists

• PHYSICS DEPARTMENT TAMU SUMMER 05
• Mario Francisco Borunda

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Outline

• Introduction
• Block modeling
• Motion
• Skeletons
• Exporting your animation

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By the end of the day
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HOW? 3D Modelers

• Anim8or - free software
• Maya Learning Edition not as simple
• System requirements
• 256 MB ram Windows OpenGl

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Open GL

• 3D Graphics library
• Not a programming language but an application
  programming interface (API)
• Uses primitives to draw objects

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BLOCK MODELING

• Surfaces

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MOTION
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SKELETONS
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EXPORTING
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Let us begin