Nice work! Haven’t seen anything like this before. It makes me happy that people do stuff like this. Small experiments often open up big new design ideas.
"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout
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Re: "Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout
#12Nice work! Haven’t seen anything like this before. It makes me happy that people do stuff like this. Small experiments often open up big new design ideas.
Thank you! This can make it quite easy to create demos like those “dragon swimming through text” animations that became popular recently. I had no idea what other real-world applications we could use it for, but it was fun to be able to do it, LOL.
Re: "Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout
#13I have no idea what this is about. I see no stick figure or anything interactive, when I open this on my iPhone. I’d does say Idle below the reset button though. To make things worse, if you scroll down, you can’t scroll back to page top. I assume the main area intercepts the touch events, blocking scrolling…
It works on my Android phone with Vivaldi, though I need to be careful because the text doesn't allow me to scroll
Re: "Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout
#14Quite neat! Seems like a very fun library. This demo is very similar to what was posted as well:
https://cosmiciron.github.io/layoutmaster/dancing-text.html
Can see how this could make a few useful "splash" pages on projects I'm working on now. Just need to prep a video with a proper green screen.
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Definitely have to attribute this to some of the better web APIs that have become standardize over the last 10 years.
While we aren't close to replicating the ease of flash, modern animation techniques have closed the gap considerably.
Also anything to move away from greensock is always a plus in my book.
Re: "Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout
#15I have no idea what this is about. I see no stick figure or anything interactive, when I open this on my iPhone. I’d does say Idle below the reset button though. To make things worse, if you scroll down, you can’t scroll back to page top. I assume the main area intercepts the touch events, blocking scrolling…
Whenever a web page doesn't work I try a different browser. You can do that on an iPhone right?
iPhones have different browsers, but they don't have different browser engines. It's WebKit or nothing.
Re: "Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout
#16Quite neat! Seems like a very fun library. This demo is very similar to what was posted as well: https://cosmiciron.github.io/layoutmaster/dancing-text.html Can see how this could make a few useful "splash" pages on projects I'm working on now. Just need to prep a video with a proper green screen. --- Definitely have to attribute this to some of the better web APIs that have become standardize over the last 10 years.…
Yes, it’s a late addition to that library. The dancing text demo uses the “weighted exclusion” feature of the VMPrint engine, which essentially creates an object composed of horizontal bars. However, the engine also offers another mode that constructs exclusion objects by combining primitive shapes like circles and polygons. This “stick” demo demonstrates that. In doing so, I added a small set of APIs to allow programmatic control over these primitive parts, which essentially turns this into a rudimentary rigging system. I’m uncertain about its practicality in real-world applications, but it was interesting to observe.
I’m glad that you’re trying the Layoutmaster library in your projects. You can also feed it video with a predominantly white background (or any other solid color). Additionally, the video can contain multiple objects, and the algorithm treats them uniformly.