8-4 Working with Animations

An animation consists of one or more point/curve pairs, in which the curve can be a line segment, circle, ellipse, or function. You build an animation by selecting a point/curve pair, and then adding it to an animation.

Using Animation Commands

You can build and run an animation either by executing menu commands or by using the animation toolbar that appears when you tap [View] and then [Animation UI].

[Edit] – [Animate][View] – [Animation UI]

 

 

 

 

Animation toolbar

Add Animation

 

 

 

Replace Animation

 

 

 

Trace

 

 

 

Go (once)

 

 

 

Go (repeat)

 

 

 

Go (to and fro)

 

 

 

Stop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•Most of the procedures in this section are performed using the [Animate] submenu.

•All of the [Animate] menu commands can be accessed from the animation toolbar, except for [Edit] - [Animate] - [Edit Animations].

•To close the animation toolbar and return to the normal toolbar, tap the = button on the right side of the animation toolbar, or tap [View] and then [Animation UI].

uTo add an animation and run it

1.Plot a point and draw a figure (here we draw a parallelogram). Or, you could draw a circle, arc, ellipse, line segment, or function instead of a figure.

2.Select the point and a side of the parallelogram.

3.Tap [Edit], [Animate], and then [Add Animation].

• The point selected in step 2 moves along the side of the parallelogram.

4. Tap [Edit], [Animate], and then [Go (once)], [Go (repeat)], or [Go (to and fro)].

Point A moves along side CD.

5.Tap [Edit], [Animate], and then [Stop] to stop the animation.

• You can also stop the animation by tapping lon the icon panel.

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