Blowing in the Wind

[Ken Ray]

On 8/16/05 4:07 PM, "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> Greetings List:
> 
> For those of you who were unable to attend my presentation at RevConWest, I
> showed some experiments with one of Rev's newest features: deep masks.  One
> of the nice things about this feature is the ability of Rev to cache the
> current window shape before switching to new shape.  This effectively allows
> you to smoothly change shape of a window without it briefly disappearing or
> flashing -- in essence creating an animated stack.
> 
> Today I came across a flag animation on the 'net and, just to see if it
> would work, I tried applying the animation to the windowShape of a stack.
> The result is a stack that whose shape and surface ripples as if blown in a
> light breeze.
> 
> Execute the following in your message box:
> 
>   go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/breeze.rev"
> 
> This stack is about 600K so give it a minute to download (you should be able
> to drag the stack around your desktop as well).  On my 667mHz laptop the
> result is pretty nice; your mileage may vary...

Very nice, Scott! You never cease to amaze me... and the code is so simple!

:-)


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com