Adding Animation Points

Animations are created by saving a series of viewpoints of the cave into memory. These viewpoints consist of the pan, zoom and rotate parameters for a particular image of the cave. Once the points are saved to memory, the computer can generate intermediate points that smoothly transition between any two positions. By rapidly playing back these intermediate points, you get a motion picture of your travels around and through the cave.

Capturing Images. The process of creating an animation is easy. You begin by finding a starting view for the animation. Just zoom, pan or rotate the cave until you have a good starting position. You then click-on the "Add Point" button. This will save the first point to memory. Now, you move to another position and, once again, click the Add Button.

It is not necessary for the viewpoints to be close together because the program will create many intermediate steps to animate smoothly between any of the two positions. You can use any combination of zoom, pan or rotatebetween points because the program will generate intermediate zoom, pan and rotate position that smoothly transistion between the points.