Basic Animation Lingo
animation	Simulation of motion by showing a series of slightly differing frames
frame	A single image in an animated sequence of images
sprite	A moving graphical object- something that moves basically
flicker	A visible delay between frames that makes them seem 'broken up'
lag	Discernable slowing down, usually meaning the amount of time to render a frame is more than the set delay time is
refreshing	undrawing and then redrawing
sprite refreshing	undrawing a single sprite and then drawing it in it's new position/state.
frame refreshing	clearing the entire window and then drawing the new frame
self-refreshing sprites	sprites that undraw themselves (by redrawing their background) at their old location before drawing themselves at their new location
synchronizeable actions	Actions that can be done at the same time
time-killing loop	A loop that doesn't do anything in particular and doesn't serve any purpose but to cause a busy delay. Not a good method for animation!
Runnable	An interface in java that allows the use of threads to process various sequences of events even simultaneously, such as animation and user interaction
Timer	A very nice animation tool that generates events at regular intervals. Unfortunately, it wasn't written into older versions of java and standard web browsers don't recognize it.
static animation	Animation that doesn't use sprites, but usually uses a series of frames, whether rendered or static
rendering	Creating the animation frame while the program is executing rather than figuring it out ahead of time and just displaying the frames
static frames	frames that have been rendered before the program was run and are just being displayed
sprite interaction	Checking to see if each and every combination of two sprites in an animation should change because of each other
FUN	WHAT YOU HAVE WHILE DOING ANIMATION!