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Count how many objects within a given bounding area
Hi,
I’d like to count how many objects are within a given area, so that I could produce something a bit like this:https://twitter.com/electoralreform/status/1025290216473616385
So that for a given region I can count how many (eg blue houses) are within that region.
Been googling around a lot, but really not sure where to start… SampleImage? CountItems? I’ve written basic expressions before but can’t seem to find the right question to search for.
Many thanks,
TomWhy do boundaries matter? They often decide who wins. Look how control of our fictional town council changes between the reds and the blues as the ward boundaries move, even though nobody changes their vote. pic.twitter.com/ZBOOyzBQzr
— Electoral Reform Society (@electoralreform) August 3, 2018
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2 Replies
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Try this:
Draw your area as a Shape Layer. Make sure to add fill to it.
Name it “Area” for the expression to work. Choosing another name means you must change the name in the expression too.Make a text layer. Add this expression to the text field.
layerCount = 0;
startCount = 2; //index of the first counted layer
stopCount = 5; //index of the last counted layer
target = thisComp.layer("Area");
for(var i = startCount; i<=stopCount;i++){
if (target.sampleImage(thisComp.layer(i).transform.position,[1,1],true,time)[3] == 1) {
layerCount++;
}
}
layerCount;
Andrei
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That’s great – many thanks!
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