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- Transitional camera -
An interactive camera provides one of the greatest levels of freedom found in a virtual world. Moving the camera around gives the viewer a way to control space and time that can't be found in 2-D media. The viewer is controlling his or her virtual camera to act as a director telling a story.
A third camera is introduced to provide a transition between the other viewpoints when you hit the spacebar. You will notice that this transitional camera recreates the spatial continuity of the scene by flying along an optimal path on a bezier curve calculated on the fly, delicately suspended between viewpoints.
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