The Clockworks: An Object-Oriented Computer Animation System

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1987
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Eurographics Association
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The Clockworks is an object-oriented computer animation system developed at RPl's Center for Interactive Computer Graphics (CICG). The Clockworks has the ability to model and graphically simulate complex 3-D engineering processes, Its interactive capabilities also allow it be used as a design tool. Object-oriented concepts have been utilized in developing its high level architecture and its low level implementation. The Clockworks is defined as a collection of objects which communicate with the user and each other via messages. The actual implementation involved the creation of an object-oriented programming methodology using C and Unix. The complete system provides a rich research environment for exploring modelling, scripting and rendering. It also provides an interactive environment for design and a simulation environment for visual analysis of complex interacting structures.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:egtp.19871021
, booktitle = {
EG 1987-Technical Papers
}, editor = {}, title = {{
The Clockworks: An Object-Oriented Computer Animation System
}}, author = {
Breen, David E.
and
Getto, Phillip H.
and
Apodaca, Anthony A.
and
Schmidt, Daniel G.
and
Sarachan, Brion D.
}, year = {
1987
}, publisher = {
Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1017-4656
}, ISBN = {}, DOI = {
10.2312/egtp.19871021
} }
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