1. A method for streaming, over a network connection between a source and a destination, an animated digital display including a plurality of digital image frames, each digital image frame containing an animated object having a plurality of vertices, each of the plurality of vertices having a corresponding spatial coordinate, the method comprising the steps of: combining the set of vertices for the object contained in each of the plurality of digital image frames into a vertices data matrix, A; performing a singular value decomposition (SVD) on the vertices data matrix, wherein A&equals;U&starf;W&starf;V T ; determining the SVD basis matrix; sending the SVD basis matrix from the source to the destination via the network connection; determining a plurality of SVD coefficients; storing the SVD basis matrix at the destination; sending the plurality of SVD coefficients from the source to the destination via the network connection; and reconstructing the vertices data matrix as a function of the SVD coefficients and the SVD basis matrix.