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DNA Double Helix
I’m trying to create an animated DNA double helix in AE6. I like what Joe Chao did here (https://www.creativecow.net/articles/chao_joe/textstream/index.html) but the helix gets ever wider, and a DNA helix would have a constrained width. Also, I don’t want to use text for the animation. Any ideas?
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There are a couple programs that might be up your street – RASMOL and its descendant Protein Explorer. They allow DNA sequences to be loaded into a sort-of-3D world, and sort-of animated .. hmm – not slick like AE, but close to the chemistry. They are free to download, cross platform …
More at
https://www.openrasmol.org/https://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
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somewhere on the total training site Brian M has or had a tutorial on creating a helix. can’t find my link to it right now, but i know it is or was there a short while ago because I did it.
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One technique is to use CC Cylinder applied to diagonal lines to create helix shapes. You’ll have to duplicate and offset the lines to get a double helix, but I imagine it’s doable within certain limitations.
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You could go to http://www.theanvel.com and follow the link to the 57 free AEP’s. They’re cool to have anyway and the Cow’s Dean Velez did a great job with these. Back on topic, one of the 57 AEP’s is a DNA helix. Here’s the link:
https://161.58.43.159/free_aeps_detail.php?aeps=85
Check out the flash-based video of the effects… I think the DNA one is about 7 or 8 in. Hope this helps! (and kudos to Dean Velez first for creating and second for providing).
rjf
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One last option is CC Ball Action. If you set up your image file correctly, then CC Ball Action will break it up into ‘molecules’and twist the image too. If you have transparent sections to it, you’ll get empty sections of the DNA strand.
Graham
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Sorry, I don’t have the link, but I believe that Brian Maffit(t)’s tutorial was called “what the helix going on here?”. Give it a Google.
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