Principles, Techniques, Properties, and Values

Principles are the underlying premises and rules of function giving rise to any number of techniques. From there, we can imagine a hierarchy:

• principles at the top,
• techniques further down,
• properties below that, and
• values at the bottom.

Properties are the specific object parameters that are being animated to create the technique. Values are the actual numeric property values that vary over time to create what we call ‘ animation'.