e/Timewarps

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has gloss	eng: Timewarps is a term used to describe a tool for manipulating the temporal dimension in a hierarchically described 3D computer animation system. It was coined by Jeff Smith and Karen Drewery in 1991. Continuous curves that are normally applied to parametric modeling and rendering attributes are instead applied to the local clock value, which effectively remaps the flow of global time within the context of the subsection of the model to which the curves are applied. The tool was first developed to assist animators in making minor adjustments to subsections of animated scenes that might employ dozens of related interpolation curves. Rather than adjust the timing of every curve within the subsection, a timewarp curve can be applied to the model section in question, adjusting the flow of time itself for that element, with respect to the timing of the other, unaffected elements.
lexicalization	eng: Timewarps
instance of	e/3D computer graphics