On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Julien Jorge <julien.jorge@stuff-o-matic.com
wrote:
I am not sure that there is a standard for the tween/tweener terms.
Basically, as it's the term used by almost all (game-related) libraries out there providing these features, I think we can consider tween/er/ing the de-facto standard name for it. As Michael pointed: TweenLite, iTween, HOTween, AniMate, cpptweener, etc. all make reference to tweening. I'm not even counting libraries that have a sub library for tweening inside, like most game engines or frameworks - cocos2d(-X) for example. Jeffrey, the keyword you should have looked at is "tweening" not just "tween". See google results, in particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbetweening also check some stackoverflow questions related, all using the same words: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=tween I think that the more generic term is not interpolate (as it is only the algorithm inside the operation), but animate (an object's value) /animation, as it is basically procedural generation of animation (be it graphic or not. But I would prefer tween/er/ing as it is clearer for people who worked with such kind of library in the past. Joel Lamotte