Chapter 5 Animation
Are you ready for your journey into the … fourth dimension!? (Cue spooky theramin music.)
Animation is all about time—stopping time, starting time, and bending time to produce the effect you want: movement. You don’t actually have to learn much new JavaScript in order to create web page animation—just two little functions. One and a half, really. What are they? You’ll have to read on to find out!
But first, let’s take a look at exactly what animation is, and how we can best go about producing it on a computer screen.
The Principles of Animation
If, like me, you’re a connoisseur of Saturday morning cartoons, you’ll probably be familiar with the basic principles of animation. As illustrated in Figure 5.1, what ...
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