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Jonathan Eric Gleasman

Denise Michele Trabona

James Lee

Ethan Nelson Ray

Maverick J Velasco

Leslie Macneil

Tsz Yan Wong

Jeffrey Gregg Arnold

Kieran M Phelan

Gerrit H Hofmeester

Samuel J Moreau

Seung Yang

Nancy Phan

Daryl Tanghe

Holger Kühnle

Nazia Zaman

Moneta K Ho Kushner

Finbarr Duggan

Jeffrey Jon Weir

Bonny Pui Kwan Lau

Vasudha Chandrasekaran

Jason Beaumont

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Bonny Lau

Michael Greenwood

Gary Sherman

Manuel Christian Clement

William Hong Vong

Michael H LaManna

Niels Van Dongen

Song Zou

Lisa Carolyn Cherian

Theodore Aaron Haberman

Andrea Michelle Simons

Wei Zhang

Sean Wen

Brian Daniel Beck

Daniel L Odell

Britt Hillary Hansing

Steven Philip Benario

Pai-Hung Chen

Danielle Yvonne Salisbury

Ji Gao

Denise Michele Trabcna

Display screen with graphical user interface

Collection rearrangement animation techniques are described herein, which can be employed to represent changes made by a rearrangement in a manner that reduces or eliminates visual confusion. A collection of items arranged at initial positions can be displayed. Various interaction can initiate a rearrangement of the collection of items, such as to sort the items, add or remove an item, or reposition an item. An animation of the rearrangement is depicted that omits at least a portion of the spatial travel along pathways from the initial positions to destination positions in the rearranged collection. In one approach, items can be animated to disappear from the initial positions and reappear at destination positions. This can occur by applying visual transitions that are bound to dimensional footprints of the items in the collection. Additionally or alternatively, intermediate and overlapping positions can be omitted by the animation.

Collection rearrangement animation

Animation coordination system and methods are provided that manage animation context transitions between and/or among multiple applications. A global coordinator can obtain initial information, such as initial graphical representations and object types, initial positions, etc., from initiator applications and final information, such as final graphical representations and object types, final positions, etc. from destination applications. The global coordination creates an animation context transition between initiator applications and destination applications based upon the initial information and the final information.

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