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Sprites are an essential ingredient for creating interesting animations. In this chapter, you have seen how to encapsulate sprites, sprite painters, sprite behaviors, and sprite animations in objects of their own that you can reuse. Those objects let you write code at a higher level of abstraction and therefore greatly simplify the code that you need to write.
In the next chapter we look at another essential animation ingredient: physics.