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degraaf
Randomly Moving 900-1000 Objects
Apr 11th, 2008, 4:04am  
Hello,

Can someone help me accomplish this? ->

I have created a comp in illustrator that contains 990 squares of different color/size/position. I have exported this illustrator file to svg in order to database the color/size/position of all of these squares (syntax different than processing).

Now, I would like to move all of these squares randomly, but also be able to have them reposition themselves in their original position (the positions in the comp) at a given time (mouseclick, etc).

take a look at this screenshot, http://www.degraafdesign.com/superman.png

if you think you might have a logical solution for providing the random motion of these squares (in addition to relocating them into the image) Please let me know!

-Dan
degraafdesign@gmail.com
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antiplastik
Re: Randomly Moving 900-1000 Objects
Reply #1 - Apr 12th, 2008, 8:41am  
First, you could create your custom 'moving square' class. Color, size, initial position and motion vector would be properties of this class. Then, it is easy to instanciate 990 different objects : one per square.

To do so, you'll have to parse the SVG file to retrieve the attributes of each square (color, size, initial position). Since SVG is XML, you can easily parse it with the XML Import library.
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