Create an animation of a simple mechanism. One possibility is an assembly from Chapter 20. Create a 3-D model of the parts and render them in appropriate colors. Keep the following things in mind when creating the animation:

¦ Choose an appropriate point of view that will work for all of the frames of the animation. Alternately, change the point of view during the animation.

¦ Plan which parts will move at what point in the animation. Normally, this will mimic the movement of the real mechanism.

¦ Consider an animated sequence that, "explodes" the mechanism from its assembled configuration.

If your modeler is not capable of animation, manually move the parts of the assembly into a series of intermediate positions and capture a print or plot of the model at each stage.