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  • “digital” animation

    Posted by Chris Heuer on February 9, 2008 at 1:51 am

    Hello and happy Friday! My latest question is, how can I make a row of zeros and ones that continually change but only display zeros and ones. I tried the text animator and “character offset” but it displays 0-9. I want this to look like rolling digital code. Matrix anyone?

    Thanks in advance! Chris

    Chris Heuer
    Freefall FX, LLC

    Dan Ebberts
    replied 18 years, 3 months ago
    2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Dan Ebberts

    February 9, 2008 at 2:39 am

    This expression for a text layer’s source text should work:

    digits = 16;
    freq = 10;

    posterizeTime(freq);
    randMin = Math.pow(2,digits);
    randMax = randMin*2;
    random(randMin,randMax).toString(2).substr(1)

    Adjust the number of digits and the frequency as necessary.

    Dan

  • Chris Heuer

    February 9, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    Perfect, Thank you very much. I’d like to ask for a little explanation of how this works (I’m trying to learn, not just mooch) when you have the time. Or you could point me toward a lesson from your site if there’s something there that pertains to this.

    Thanks again! Chris

    Chris Heuer
    Freefall FX, LLC

  • Dan Ebberts

    February 9, 2008 at 6:54 pm

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