Bézier Clock

Post by owenversteeg » Thu, Sep 11, 2014, 5:34 PM UTC

tdicola wrote: post #13

Nice animation. Something similar is JWZ's dali clock: http://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/

Post by AlexBelgium » Fri, Sep 12, 2014, 1:18 AM UTC

mietek wrote: post #56

Breakthrough wrote: post #41

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One trick I've noticed to make animations/transitions "snappier" and more natural is to use quadratic/square (power of 2) scaling. For fun I did it on this clock just saving it locally - you can do it by modifying line 140 of `bezier_clock.pde` to square the ratio instead of simply assign it: animationRatio = ratio * ratio; // can also replace with sqrt(ratio) Again, just makes it a little bit 'snappier' ( remember y…

There are many interesting easing functions to play with, primarily due to Robert Penner: http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/