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Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • What are Synthetic Movies ?
  • Reasons for Exploring Synthetic Movies
    • Interactive Games
    • Low Bandwidth Communication
    • The Movie Director
  • Synthetic Movies at the User Interface
• Previous Examples of Synthetic Movies
  • Computer Graphics
  • Bolio
  • Interactive Video Games
  • The Movie Manual
  • The Oxyacetylene Welding Simulator
  • The Elastic Charles
• Basic Components of a Synthetic Movie
  • The Object Description
    • 3D Representations
    • A 2D Image Representation
  • The Movie Description
    • Intraframe Movie Descriptions
    • Interframe Movie Descriptions
• Video Finger: An Example Synthetic Movie
  • Video Finger Description
    • Video Finger as a Synthetic Movie
  • Basic Design Issues
    • Hardware Capabilities
    • Object Representation
    • Motion Description
    • Depth
• Video Finger: Software Description
  • Basic Software Overview
    • Object Handlers
    • Task Dispatcher
    • Drawing and Color Routines
  • Basic Task Language Interpreter
  • View Scaling
    • View Caching
  • Network Interface
• Video Finger: Data Preparation
  • Filming
  • Pre-Processing
  • Segmentation
  • Alternative Means of Data Preparation
• Results
  • Improvements
  • Future Work
  • Future Hardware
• Conclusion
• References