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Animation
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objects can be made to move around the virtual world
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Movie animation
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passive user watches the animation
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Interactive animation
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active user clicks on mouse, types a key on keyboard
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Events
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actions of a user
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Mouse
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approximately positions objects in the scene
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Camera Navigation
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sets cameras point of view
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Drop-down Menu Methods
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resize objects; more precisely postion objects in the scene
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Quadview
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position one object relative to another object
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Object
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any thing that can be identified as unique from other things
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An object has:
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a name; properties; performs actions
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3-D object
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has three dimensions: height, width, depth
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3-D object
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6 degrees of freedom (directions of movement)
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What is the center?
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center of mass; where it stands on the ground; where it is held
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Objects are:
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categorized into classes
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What do objects go into?
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Instances of the class
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What can objects do?
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perform similar tasks as other objects in their class and have similar properties
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Local gallery
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(installed with software) minimum or complete options
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Web gallery
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gallery taken off the internet
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Control Structures
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allow you to be in control of the order in which instructions are executed
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Program's logic
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what control structures control
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Two examples of control structures:
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Do in order; Do together
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Conditional Execution
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some condition are checked and a decision is madeas to which section of code will run or not
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If/else statement
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makes a decision based on the value of a certain condition
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Boolean Function
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checks to see if a condition is true or false
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Parameters
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used to communicate with a method
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