Z's Stop-Frame Animation

Type: Workshop
Program Area: Games and Play

All Day Saturday and Sunday

Location: Fiesta Hall Workshop

To make a stop-frame animation, an object is moved a little
bit, photographed with a digital camera, moved some more, then photographed
again. This process is repeated many times. When the photos are played back
in quick succession (e.g. 5 pictures per second), the object appears to
move by itself. The digital camera is mounted firmly in a stand made from
PVC tubing, a door hinge, rubber bands, screws and wood.

Come participate!

Related site: http://domino.research.ibm.com/odis/odis.nsf/pages/profile.zimmerman.html

Presented by

Thomas Zimmerman
IBM Almaden Research Center

Thomas Zimmerman is a Research Staff Member in the USER Group of the IBM Almaden Research Center, working on new human/machine interface devices and paradigms. In the 1980’s he invented the DataGlove and confounded the field of Virtual Reality. At MIT, he developed a Personal Area Network by sending data through the body.