25. The Art of Algorithm Animation
"To emphasize a specific action or reaction, the animator can exaggerate the movement with a take, sneak, or stagger."
--Tony White. The Animator's Workbook. Billboard Publications, New York, 1986.
Definition of Algorithm
Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest describe in [Cor90] an algorithm informally as "... any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value, or set of values, as input and produces some value, or set of values, as output. An algorithm is thus a sequence of computational steps that transform the input into the output." But although the algorithm is a well-defined procedure, the animation of the algorithm is much less well-defined. Rather, animating algorithms is much more of an art than of a science.