Flowing text?

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:15 am

Not really sure how else to describe the effect I would like to achieve.
I have a picture of a PC, and a spinning disk, and would like to have the effect of a stream of 1's and 0's flowing from PC to disk to illustrate the writing of data to disk.
Does anyone have any ideas/pointers/samples?

Thanks.
Regards,
Greg

rguthrie · Post by **rguthrie** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:22 am

Greg,

How do you plan on usig this? In a video, on the web as a Flash?

Ron

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:40 am

Ron,
will be using as part of a web site logo, either as animated gif or flash.

Regards,
Greg
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rguthrie · Post by **rguthrie** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:09 am

Greg,

This'll take a bit of work but one way to do it is to build your text bit by bit (pun intended) every couple of frames. So, in frame 1 you could have (all as one text)

0
1
0
1

frame 15 (move your first bit pattern towards your disk)

10
11
10
01

frame 30

110
011
010
101

etc. You may want to group the sets of bits together, that way you can move the group as a whole towards the disk.

When you get to to end you can have it simply loop. I know that animated gifs can be set to do this, and I'll assume that Flash can do it as well.

Hope this helps,
Ron

pauley · Post by **pauley** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:57 am

Make a curtain to partially hide the 1s and 0s. Then just move the binary stream over time.

Pauley