Method of animating an image by squiggling the edges of image features

1. A method of simulated animation on a computer having a plurality of different cursor position functions stored in a computer memory, comprising the steps of:

duplicating an original image at least once, to create a plurality of duplicate images, and storing said duplicate images in the computer memory;

editing said stored duplicate images by

activating a computerized image editing function that modifies the duplicate image in accordance with one of the plurality of stored cursor position functions, and

moving a cursor along a path determined by the one of the plurality of stored cursor position functions to edit the duplicate image, and

arranging a sequence of said edited images on a background for display in succession,

wherein at least some of the edited images are created using different ones of the plurality of stored cursor position functions.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said duplicating step is performed using a computer.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sequence of edited images consists of five edited images.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a duplicate image is inserted into the sequence of edited images.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sequence of edited images consists of four edited images and a duplicate image is inserted into the sequence of edited images.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sequence of edited images comprises at least three edited images.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the image editing function smears pixels in a direction of the cursor.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the image editing function comprises the "smear" function of AUDODESK ANIIMATOR PRO.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the cursor position functions comprises a plurality of imperfect circles arranged about a grid.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of arranging for the repeated display of the sequence of edited images.

11. The method according to claim 1, in which the step of arranging a sequence of said edited images on a background further comprises the step of pasting each of the edited images onto an identical background.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of displaying the sequence of edited images in rapid succession.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the cursor position functions is created by hand.

14. A method of creating an animated show comprising a plurality of multi-frame scenes, on a computer having a plurality of different cursor position functions stored in a computer memory, wherein each of the scenes is created from a still image according to a method comprising the steps of:

duplicating an original image at least once, to create a plurality of duplicate images, and storing said duplicate images in the computer memory;

editing said stored duplicate images by

activating a computerized image editing function that modifies each duplicate image in accordance with one of the plurality of different stored cursor position function to create a plurality of edited images,

moving a cursor along a path determined by the one of the plurality of stored cursor position functions to edit the duplicate image, and

arranging a sequence of said edited images on a background for display in repeated succession,

wherein at least some of the edited images are created using different ones of the plurality of stored cursor position functions.

15. An animated show stored on a medium, said show comprising a plurality of multi-frame scenes wherein each of said scenes is created from a still image by a computer having a plurality of different cursor position functions stored in a computer memory, according to a method comprising the steps of:

duplicating an original image at least once, to create a plurality of duplicate images, and storing said duplicate images in the computer memory;

editing said stored duplicate images by

activating a computerized image editing function that modifies each image in accordance with one of the plurality of stored cursor position functions to create a plurality of edited images, and

moving a cursor along a path determined by the one of the plurality of stored cursor position functions to edit the duplicate image, and

arranging a sequence of said edited images on a background for display in repeated succession,

wherein each edited image of said plurality of edited images is created using a different one of the plurality of stored cursor position functions.

16. A method of animation, comprising the steps of:

duplicating an original image at least once, to create in a plurality of duplicate images;

accessing a plurality of pre-stored different image editing routines;

editing each image of the plurality of duplicate images in accordance with a different one of the plurality of image editing routines, to create a plurality of different edited images; and

arranging a sequence of said edited images for sequential display.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising the step of arranging for a repeated display of the sequence of said edited images.

18. The method according to claim 16, further comprising the step of pasting each of the edited images onto an identical background.

19. The method according to claim 16, further comprising the step of displaying the sequence of edited images in rapid succession.

20. The method according to claim 16, wherein a duplicate image is inserted into the sequence of edited images.

21. The method of creating a set of cursor position functions use in conjunction with an image editing function, the method comprising the step of:

storing independently, for each cursor position function of the set, a movement of a cursor comprising a rectangular array of hand-drawn, irregular circles.