I might not have looked at them in while; yet, I think I know what you
are talking about. One of them reminded me of this weired thing I saw
in the bathroom once, and I figure just dragging a gradient through an
outer circular membrane would have a great looking movement effect; yet,
I really want functional hairs/feelers.
I appreciate all the other responses too.
Some of the liquidjourney.com experiments are pretty cool, nicoptere.net
makes me want to learn more french, and I might be able to build on the
bacteria generator idea; yet, the surface really needs to influence the
position of the feelers, or vise versa, and I really want to know which
of my ideas for placement is best, and perhaps what the most effective
way of doing it might be. Maybe its just moving the hairs and the
sections of membrane between the hair/feelers get squished, meaning I
should be dealing with straight lines instead of curves? But I really
want it to look pretty too.
Creating more control points along the curve would allow me to have
accuracy; yet, I would have to move each point and recalculate (what I
think is referred to as) the kappas (somebody correct me if I am talking
quasi-math gibberish) for each bezier segment to maintain a curved
membrane; however, I could calculate the length of each bezier line
segment and place the hairs according based on averaging and plotting
along the locus of the quadratic that the bezier creates.
I am not pressed for time with this one, as it is a personal project,
so, if it comes down to it, I will try everything.
Thanks again for the responses,
Anthony
jonathan howe wrote:
This may sound a little kooky but if you have access to a copy of Resident
Evil 5, you might want to check out the game setup menu screens for
inspiration. At each level of the menu, they have different cells... one
trick that they do is tween the blur of an item so it looks like it's moving
in/out of the depth of field of the microsoft. I'm sure you can see the way
they apply transformations to a shape by watching it for a little bit.
-jonathan
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Alan Shaw <noden...@gmail.com> wrote:
Check this out:
http://www.nicoptere.net/blog/index.php/2008/10/13/51-bacteria-generator-actionscript-flash
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Anthony Pace <anthony.p...@utoronto.ca>
wrote:
I am looking for some really good examples of amoeba or microbe
simulations
done in as3
I know that it is probably just done using beziers; yet, I am also
wondering
what the best way would be to connect hair "feelers" to the edges, so if
the
microbe changes shape the hairs move accordingly.
Do I break down the curve along a larger bezier to find the distance it
covers and then based on averaging the distance of the hairs place them?
or
would it be better to just make a curve that has more control points;
thus,
making it easier to track the position of the "feelers" along the curve
but
having to process a "kappas"(? not sure if the term really applies here,
just guessing) value for each added control point?
What do you think?
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