Real Time Motion:

Developments in hardware technologies (super chips, parallel
processing, superconductors, storage, display) will dramatically
improve the display resolution and color rendition of graphics
systems, and will make increasingly sophisticated animation and
3-D modeling packages possible.  The development of powerful data
compression algorithms based on fractal mathematics will make the
compression and decompression of digital images more efficient,
permitting real time (30 frames per second) display of action
graphics.  One software strategy that will facilitate the display
of real time animation and digital video involves the replacement
of only the pixels (picture elements) that vary in the serial
progression of images.  By manipulating only the minimum number
of pixels necessary to depict movement and color changes, the
storage requirements are reduced and performance capabilities of
decompression algorithms and CPU's are more efficiently
exploited (Cottram, 1989).

<ffile51>   Animation and 3-D Graphics