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jfernsler
complex bezier as motion path??
Nov 23rd, 2008, 9:14pm  
Is there a way anyone has found to be able to import paths from svg or ai and then use those as a motion path for an object. Somehow I'd like to be able to query x/y coordinates of a point on a curve that I'm able to import.

I see the point on curve function but that seems to only work for 2 vertex bezier curve. I'd like to be able to use something similar w/ more complex curve or typography curves from illustrator.

The SVG import seems to only allow drawing and scaling or the svg object - no discreet curve addressing.

anyway, if someone has some option for this I'd really appreciate hearing it...
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namke
Re: complex bezier as motion path??
Reply #1 - Nov 24th, 2008, 4:23pm  
Is this something that can be done with geomerative? It has an SVG import as well as font->path ability (IIRC).

It can be found here: http://www.ricardmarxer.com/geomerative/

I'm going to be looking at a similar area myself shortly, so would be interested in finding out how you get on!
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jfernsler
Re: complex bezier as motion path??
Reply #2 - Nov 24th, 2008, 7:55pm  
Hey thanks - I found/downloaded this yesterday and haven't had a chance to take a look at it yet, but I'll let you know how things go..

Thanks for the reply - if you run into anything else, I'd love to hear

-jf
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jfernsler
Re: complex bezier as motion path??
Reply #3 - Nov 25th, 2008, 2:28am  
Okay, so I had a bit of time to play w/ the geomerative lib and it's got all I need to do what I set out to do... very easy to take an svg and grab each path and then  get a set of points that fall on that path... really easy.

I highly recommend it. I'm barely using a piece of it and it's going everything I need.

-jf
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namke
Re: complex bezier as motion path??
Reply #4 - Nov 25th, 2008, 2:11pm  
Cool - Geomerative is on my list of things to try... unfortunately there are a whole bunch of other things waiting as well!

I am especially interested in extracting paths from fonts, but the SVG thing will probably turn out to be even more useful (drawing complex motion paths using Inkscape for example)
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