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Need to simulate spread of global pandemic
I have been asked to do a video presentation for a ficticious global pandemic. They want to have a map of the world and show “outbreak points” over time. If you ever saw the movie “Outbreak” then you’ll know the scene where they show a map of the US that gradually gets more and more red dots on it showing the spread of a contagion. We need to do something similar on a global scale.
My initial thought was particle playground but I’ve never dealt in the realm of particles before so then I thought maybe an expression would be better. I’m looking for any feedback.
Basically, we need to show the outbreak starting at T=0 in India with a single point and then at T=x (don’t know how long exactly yet) we need to spots in Asia, Europe, Africa, Austrlia, South America and a couple of spots in North America as being “infected.”
Looking forward to hearing your suggestions.
Steve Bailey
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I already got the earth part… I just need some help “animating some masks” over it… Can you elaborate on this?
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I think I understand what you are doing and, if I am right, I didn’t explain myself clearly enough — I apologize.
I’m looking for a way to spread random “dots” of infection over the earth… Doing your method will give me a slowly revealed solid color over the land masses. I’m looking more for like a google maps kind of “pushpins” look where there are multiple points (i.e. pushpins) around the world.
Does that make more sense?
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Hi
here is one way:
>apply the write on effect on a solid(same size as your earth layer)=> Paint style=On Transparent
>Expression for Brush positionframe=timeToFrames(t = time + thisComp.displayStartTime, fps = 1.0 / thisComp.frameDuration, isDuration = false);
period=6;//creates dots every 6. frame
seed =Math.floor(frame/period)seedRandom(seed, 1);
random([0,0],[thisComp.width,thisComp.height])>apply CC Sphere
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