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Dynamic word cloud / flock (scale and position dependancy)
dear all,
does anyone have a suggestion, how to build a dynamic text cloud (mostly single, sometimes two words text layer, with a custom position) in After Effects, where e<font face=”inherit”>ach word in the cloud be react based on proximity to other words. </font>
<font face=”inherit”>If a scale of any word gets increased, </font><font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>other nearby </font><font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>words </font><font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>(within a certain </font>Falloff<font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> radius)</font> should scale down and move away to avoid overlap.
thank you for any tips.
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2 Replies
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That would be a tricky algorithm because the position and scale of each word is dependent on all the other words. Offhand, I can’t think of a reasonable expressions-based solution for something like that.
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dear Dan, firstly thank you for a quick respond.
The idea behind it was, creating dynamic “a wallpaper” of a lot of words with a simplified animation process…
Might be, that all the expressions would make the Composition too processing heavy anyway, so I will try to solve it with the traditional keyframe animation…
Greetings,
Luka
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