"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
Walt DisneyThe field of computer graphics has progressed a long way since the first graphical package, SketchPad, was produced by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 [23] and computers are now capable of drawing millions of polygons a second.
This section of the chapter looks at graphics API's capable of the animation and rendering of a vitual environment, toolkits for the containment of the animation in an operating system consistent application, and some existing technologies that could be utilised.