Abstract
One of the biggest problem in computer animation is the enormous amount of specification necessary to produce an animation sequence. Our animation language, SOLAR, is designed to enable us to specify animation easily and efficiently. SOLAR achieves this through the use of object-oriented paradigm and abstractions. Supports for high-level abstractions and adaptive motion are provided through its class-inheritance and message-passing mechanisms. Five kinds of abstractions are supported, i.e. structural, motion, functional, character and world modeling. Together, they provide good support for programming animation. All interactions between graphical objects are achieved through its messagepassing mechanism. This paper describes the main features of SOLAR and its implementation.
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Chua, TS., Wong, WH., Chu, KC. (1988). Design and Implementation of the Animation Language SOLAR. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (eds) New Trends in Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83492-9_2
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