The content of the website is mainly the early history of computer animation (1963-75) and animating using SVG. The period up to 1975 was when computer animation was difficult to produce and took a lot longer.

There is some background information on SVG and, in particular, how to generate animation using SVG.

In 2002, the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2) decided to open and close future conferences with an animation of the conference logos to make it clear that this was now a series of 11 conferences. We produced an animation for IW3C2 each year until there were 24 animated logos all defined in SVG. We include the complete set of 24 animations here as examples of what can be done using SVG animation and have included some background material of relevance to the animations.

We also include some other SVG animations that we have developed over the years mainly to assist our own activities, discovering and reworking early animations and also just for enjoyment.

Contents

• Animation, some early history of animation and use of computers
• Early Computer Animation (1965-1975)
• SVG Essentials, Essentials of the SVG 2D graphics system for the Web
• Pseudo-3D in SVG using our path_ology system
• SVG Animation Examples including the IW3C2 Conference Logos and other SVG animations

The site is the work of Bob and Paul Hopgood and David Duce, the members of IW3C2, and the students on the Masters Course in Web Technologies at Oxford Brookes University.

Many of the diagrams can be animated. If a cyan or pink circle or arrow appears on a diagram, it usually indicates that clicking on it will start the animation.