In animation, the case where an object displays different motion effects in situations that are identical except that the object has been previously manipulated or animated.
For example, an object is motion history dependent if, when you animate the object and run the animation in a loop, the object ends up moving in slightly different ways at the same frame in each loop. By contrast, if the object moves in exactly the same way during each loop, then the object is motion history independent.
Motion history dependence effects can be a problem if you want predictable motion effects, but an advantage if you want unpredictable motion effects.
