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Animations | Appliations | Simulation | Primitives | Mesh
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The creation of artificial moving images.
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1: a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school; "December 31 is the deadline for applications" 2: the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose; "he advocated the application of statistics to the problem"; "a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis [syn: {practical application}] 3: a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different word processing applications" [syn: {application program}, {applications programme}] 4: the work of applying something; "the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for a coating of paint"; [syn: {coating}, {covering}] 5: liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin; "a lotion for dry skin" [syn: {lotion}] 6: a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application" [syn: {diligence}]
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Attempting to predict aspects of the behaviour of some system by creating an approximate (mathematical) model of it. This can be done by physical modelling, by writing a special-purpose computer program or using a more general simulation package, probably still aimed at a particular kind of simulation (e.g. structural engineering, fluid flow). Typical examples are aircraft flight simlators or electronic circuit simulators. A great many simulation languages exist, e.g. {Simula}.
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Basic computer modeling objects from which more complex objects are derived. Cones, Cylinders and Rectangles are just three of many shapes used to build 3DASA vrml scenes.
Primitives can have a substantial file size advantage over more complex objects like meshes or splines. Using primitives greatly enhances browser loading performance.
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Interlocked or intertwined primitives.
Meshes, Splines, Nurbs, Nodes and Curves are just some of the terms used by 3D artists when describing their ability to create complex three dimensional vrml scenes. Unlike primitives these objects allow artists a great deal of control over individual modeling features like size, shape, relationships and more. It's through interlocking arrays of primitives that artists are able to construct realistic 3D scenes.
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In a 3DASA context, grayscaling is defined as a process of converting colors into shades of gray for use in Digital Elevation Maps.
Grayscaling as applied in 3DASA scenes is a process of converting color values into elevation points. Because the conversion process relies only on 2D data for processing the resultant model should not be interpreted as a factual representation of the true 3D data set. It's for that reason that grayscaling should not be used to represent true 3D models.