Abstract: A method and system for displaying advertisements. The advertisements are displayed on a television having a controlled connected thereto and configured for receiving commands from a viewer of the television. The method includes displaying a first advertisement on the television, receiving a command from the viewer of the television to display a second advertisement, the second advertisement being a variant of the first advertisement, and displaying the second advertisement on the television.

Abstract: A constraint-based graphics system employs different examples of an image to define the constraints of the system. The examples are grouped into subsets which can be interpolated with one another, according to a user-specified input that determines the relative proportion of each example image. An animation can be created by defining a sequence of such interpolated images. Alternatively, a user can directly manipulate observable components of an image to define a particular state for the image. Automatic transformations are defined to provide registration of an image within an overall scene by shifting the frame of reference for an image so that unnatural movements do not occur as the animation proceeds through a sequence of states. The structure of the system permits an animation to be divided into distinct components that can be combined with complementary components of other animations, to provide new results.