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"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout

51 points by zhxiaoliang

by mulhoon

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Nice work! Haven’t seen anything like this before. It makes me happy that people do stuff like this. Small experiments often open up big new design ideas.

by iku

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I have no idea what this is about. I see no stick figure or anything interactive, when I open this on my iPhone. I’d does say Idle below the reset button though. To make things worse, if you scroll down, you can’t scroll back to page top. I assume the main area intercepts the touch events, blocking scrolling…

by zhxiaoliang

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You can use primitive exclusion assemblies to create a rig and programmatically control it to animate a layout in Layoutmaster.

by kfarr

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Context: this is a demo of a deterministic layout calculation library https://github.com/cosmiciron/layoutmaster#dancing-text (not affiliated, I was just confused so saving you a click)

by shimman

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Quite neat! Seems like a very fun library. This demo is very similar to what was posted as well:
https://cosmiciron.github.io/layoutmaster/dancing-text.html
Can see how this could make a few useful "splash" pages on projects I'm working on now. Just need to prep a video with a proper green screen.
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Definitely have to attribute this to some of the better web APIs that have become standardize over the last 10 years.
While we aren't close to replicating the ease of flash, modern animation techniques have closed the gap considerably.
Also anything to move away from greensock is always a plus in my book.