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| Persistence of Vision | The way our eyes retain images for a split second longer than they actually appear, making a series of quick flashes appear as one continuous picture. |
| Frame-by-Frame Animation | A series of many frames that appears to be in continuous motion. |
| Path or Vector Animation | The movement of animations defined by formulas. |
| 3d Graphics | The field of computer graphics concerned with generating and displaying three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional space. |
| Rollovers | The look or action of a control with relation to mouse actions. The four common rollover states are Up, Over, Down, and Hit. |
| Morphing | A technique in which one image is gradually turned into another. |
| Tween(ing) | An animation process that uses keyframes between two images. |
| Compression | The process of reducing the space required to store data be efficiently encoding the content. |
| Mp3 | A standard format for music files sent over the Internet that compresses music |
| WAV | The standard format for sound files on Windows PCs. |
| Stop Motion Animation | The process of manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame at a time |
| Frame | A single still image in a video animation |