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  Dotted line with different sized dots

  Posted by Katherine Landgrebe on January 8, 2010 at 11:56 am

  Hi everybody,
  I need a quick and easy as possible solution for a dotted line, which is animated. Gradational increasing sized dots simulate a flowing impulse through the “cable”. See picture.
  Hope anybody has an idea. I tried around with dash and stroke, but haven’t found a solution yet.
  Maybe something with text? Just shiftig the layer doesn’t look good, so I think the point is to keep the dots’ position somehow? Dunno.

  Thanks in advance.

  Katherine

  

  Katherine Landgrebe replied 16 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  January 8, 2010 at 1:03 pm

  I’d use a font that has a dot character and then use the text animation features to animate the font size.

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  Katherine Landgrebe

  January 8, 2010 at 6:22 pm

  Ah OK, that works fine. Thanks. A little tricky to understand the logic behind it, but it works. Yay.

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