Animation and 3-D Graphics:


  "As her fingers closed around the cool brass knob, it seemed to
squirm, sliding along a touch spectrum of texture and temperature
in the first second of contact.
   Then it became metal again, green painted iron, sweeping out
and down, along a line of perspective, an old railing she grasped
now in wonder.
   A few drops of rain blew into her face.
   Smell of rain and wet earth.
   Below her lay the unmistakable panorama of Barcelona, smoke
hazing the strange spires of the Church of the Sagrada Familia.
She caught the railing with her other hand as well, fighting
vertigo.  She knew this place.  She was in the Guell Park,
Antonio Gaudi's tatty fairyland, on its barren rise behind the
center of the city.  To her left, a giant lizard of crazy-quilt
ceramic was frozen in midslide down a ramp of rough stone.  Its
fountain-grin watered a bed of tired flowers.
   'You are disoriented.  Please forgive me.' " (Gibson, 1987)


Real time simulations in 3-D will revolutionize CADD
applications, allowing designers and builders to virtually walk
through construction decisions to better understand the
implications of the spatial (sensory) experience and of component
assembly before decisions are actually implemented.  Animated 3-D
systems installed on high resolution graphics workstations will
enable users to observe the dynamics of processes that might not
be fully understood otherwise.  These developments will culminate
in the ability to simulate a "virtual reality" of experiential
interaction that will be difficult to differentiate from a video
recording of the real world.

<ffile21>   Faux-tography
<ffile29>   Monitoring Technological Developments
<ffile52>   Real Time Motion
<ffile53>   Display
<ffile54>   3-D Display
<ffile66>   Time Traveler
<ffile70>   GIS Solid Modeler