One important aspect of creating computer programs is having a sound understanding of the underlying algorithms used by programs. Learning about algorithms, just like learning to program, is di$cult, however. A number of prior studies have found that using animation to help teach algorithms had less bene"cial e!ects on learning than hoped. Those results surprise many computer science instructor...

The effects of computer animations and mental animation on people’s mental models of a mechanical system are examined. In 3 experiments, students learned how a mechanical system works from various instructional treatments including viewing a static diagram of the machine, predicting motion from static diagrams, viewing computer animations, and viewing static and animated diagrams accompanied by...

Visemes are visual counterpart of phonemes. Traditionally, the speech animation of 3D synthetic faces involves extraction of visemes from input speech followed by the application of co-articulation rules to generate realistic animation. In this paper, we take a novel approach for speech animation – using visyllables, the visual counterpart of syllables. The approach results into a concatenative...

The model to pdf producer shareware animate a sustained, dancing electrical arc, by using a simplified. The motion of simulated articulated figures. In general, our work combines key-framing, physics-based animation techniques, control and motion synthesis.munity of physics-based animation practitioners to easily exchange motor controllers. Mans 3, 7, physics-based animated characters with a la...

For decades, research comparing the effectiveness of text and static illustrations with animation and narration to enhance learning has been inconclusive (Tversky et al., 2002). We argue that the failure to ascertain the benefits of animation in learning may relate to the way it is constructed, perceived, and conceptualized. Based on cognitive science and human learning theories, this paper pro...

The goal of this project is to create a muscle-based facial model which can be used to generate realistic facial animation. Maya software was used to set up the facial muscles, and attach them to the facial geometry so that changing the muscle parameter values will deform the shape of the facial model. To create smooth animation, one can change the contractions of each muscle resulting in a cha...

We present a sketch-based interface for animating virtual face models. Our approach first converts an input sketch into a set of strokes (curves). Each stroke is automatically associated with a facial element, such as eyes and mouth, and then compared against a set of template curves. The degree of similarity between input strokes and a template element defines the weights for a blendshape-base...

Many computer science educators note that understanding and analyzing algorithms is difficult. During the last twenty years several systems have been created that use computerized visualizations of algorithms in order to help student understanding. While some positive results can be seen, several questions remain unsolved. One of these is how to ensure that the student correctly understands the...