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Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
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Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition

by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 7m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition

Rotating Objects

To say that a bouncing or thrown ball travels along a parabola, really means that its center of gravity does so. The mass of anybody acts as though concentrated at its center of gravity.

Irregular Inanimate Objects

If an irregular shaped object is falling or being thrown through the air, the movement of its center of gravity along a parabola can be timed. As most objects have a tendency to rotate when flying through the air, the object is then drawn pivoting by a fixed amount about the successive positions of the center of gravity along the parabola. For example, with a heavy hammer most of the weight is in the metal head and the center of gravity is therefore close to this end. This would produce successive positions of the ...

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ISBN: 9781000338225