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Grid, squares and beams
Hi, see attached movie, I did this “manually”, could it be done with expressions?
In short the principle is to gradually build a grid of squares from the first square linking randomly to another one’s position with a beam which is “making it appear” and so on until the grid is complete.
I have to do it with a larger grid (9×9 squares) and I’m just realizing the pain of doing this 😉To add a level of complexity, as the squares appear, more than one square could simultaneously link to the next one to appear…
P.A.T.
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The difficulty with something like this is coordinating the all the data. You’d need to do the main calculation in a single expression and “publish” the results for the other expressions that do the scaling and beam animation, etc. I’d use a text layer expression for this. I’d use a two-digit (column and row) notation so that the upper left corner would be 00 and the middle would be 44 (assuming a 9×9 grid), etc. for each event I’d list the appearing square fist, followed by the squares that spawned it, and use a period (“.”) to separate events. So if you start with the center square lit up, an event sequence where the center square lights up the one above it, which lights up the one to its right, which lights up the one to its right, etc., would look like this:
4344.5343.6353……..
The logic needed to generate this random sequence in the text layer expression would be fairly complex as well. I think it would take a few hours to get this all working correctly.
Dan
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Thanks Dan,
for now I’ll go for a more simple solution since I’m on a tight deadline.P.A.T.
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