Beginning Animation

• The "Bouncing ball" is to animation what "Hello World" is to programming
  
  
• Most textbooks will use this as an example
  
  
• It's a good start, but there are a number of tips and techniques that can improve almost any animation
  
  
• We will discuss the most important of these
  
  
• But first, we need to do the basics
  
  
• For convenience in presentation, I will use applets; but the same principles work for applications