An Interactive Animation for Demonstrating Ship Maneuvering plotting

Based on analyzing characteristics and requirements of naval ship maneuvering plotting, this paper puts forward an intuitive, accurate, and interactive animation. After introducing the basic elements of animation, such as geometric objects, computational objects, and annotation objects, we propose the time and position constraints between objects, and then describe the actual generation mechanism including dynamic geometric figures, object attributes and detail optimizing. The preliminary practice based on hand-drawn software proves the animation is superior to common forms. As an automatic solution platform for ship maneuvering plotting problems, the animation also provides a new idea for navigation plotting automation.