Generation of an Image Sequence of a Falling Rectangular Light Object Using Kinetic Laws

Abstract

A computer animation method of a falling rectangular light object, such as a post card, is proposed. This method uses kinetic laws for the presentation of translation and rotation of a rigid object, reaction, lift, resistance and so on. Firstly, kinetic laws used in the present paper are introduced, and a method to decide several coefficients in those laws is shown. Secondly, the generation algorithm of image sequences is described, and generated images are shown to prove the usefulness of our method. This method is applied to generation of computer animation of falling objects.