Flying through fields of data

[Harryjf]

Sometimes it just isn’t an easy plug-in, unfortunately.

Try using an AE camera and positioning your data elements in Z space. Do a little experimenting with AE cameras and the Orbit Camera tool.

[Steve]

maybe if you had a text layer which was progressigly blured than pluged into a particle emitter…? wouldnt that do the trick?

[Mike Clasby]

Three Options –

Joe Chao, Create A Text Stream:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/chao_joe/textstream/index.html

And this by Ayato:

https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae49_e.html

Do an Advanced Search (Ayato 49) here at the Cow for details to execute as Ayato can be confusing.

Or probably easiest of all, by Ebberts:

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/ebberts_dan/particle_gen/index.html

And then pick a comp, say fountain or moving emitter (or choose one of the Explosion Comps if you want your words to explode onto the page), and with Effect > Basic Text, put a word, phrase, formula on one of
Dan’s particle layers, then dup that layer as many times as you want that word. Oh and delete the other particle layers unless you want Dan’s twinkles mixed in. You can fly though these particles with a camera as they’re true AE 3D layers.

If you want to use an expression to automate mixing words from a group of words
(or other string, like formulas) try this expression on the Source Text (property of the Text Tool):

s = “honesty,integrity,loyalty,compassion,empathy”;
holdTime = .5; //time to hold each position (seconds)
seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime);
seedRandom(seed,true);
s.split(“,”)[Math.round(random(0,4))]

Put your words in for, “honesty,integrity,loyalty,compassion,empathy”.
holdTime to something like 1000 to keep the same word, otherwise it chooses a new one after holdTime expires.
Note: If you have say ten(10) words of your own, change the last line of the expression to:
s.split(“,”)[Math.round(random(0,9))]
The (0,9) means choose one of the ten words available (javascript starts at 0, not one).
Also the “,” (commas) separate the words, anything between the commas is a unit.
Anway this expression on a text layer, dupped as many times as you want gives a mix of that many layers chosen from you word string(list).

Hope this makes sense. It’s all a hack from Dan’s expressions here:

https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/random-1.html

and here:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/ae6_exp/index2.html

[Steve]

about the ayoto web tutorial, what does this mean: (bassicly whats step 2)

Create Character Sequence

Using Point Snap and Duplicate in Illustrator.
Create Character Sequence.
Image Size 2600×1950 pixels.
Rows 50:Columns 100.
Each Cell Size 26×39 pixels.
Copy and Paste to Photoshop.

[Mike Clasby]

This is probably closest, see Andew’s post near the bottom:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?univpostid=774914&forumid=2&postid=774914&pview=t&archive=T

From an Advanced Seach at the Cow (Green Left Column):

Terms: Ayato 49 Illustrator

How farar back Do you wan to search?: All Active Posts

Search Archives: Yes

Do the above search without the Illustrator and you get lots of help, other solutions for the grid with Photoshop, or AE.

[Aesnakes]

I love that expression!!

I didnt try the other methods but I think this gets me that one step closer that I needed.

Thank you

[Mike Clasby]

Cool, and great albeit slightly kinky name, makes me feel almost normal.

[Aesnakes]

Can you make this expression seperate the lines and make little paragraphs or equations?

s = “0.125,25.35,128,266.00,0.001,2(15X32)”;
holdTime = .5; //time to hold each position (seconds)
seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime);
seedRandom(seed,true);
s.split(“,”)[Math.round(random(0,5))]

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it would be easier then having tons of layers…also do you know of a way to do this in Combustion?

Rob