Log scales = animation scales?

[Mark Smith]

David, better mathematicians than I could probably do this better,  
but this does what I think you're after:

function logScale pDistance, pNumSteps
   put pDistance / pNumSteps into stepSize
   put 0 into tNum
   put 0 into seriesA
   repeat while tNum < pDistance
     add stepSize to tNum
     put comma & LN(tNum) after seriesA
   end repeat

   put pDistance / item -1 of seriesA into tMapValue
   repeat for each item L in seriesA
     put round(pDistance - (L * tMapValue)) & comma before seriesB
   end repeat
   delete item 1 of seriesB -- first item will be 0, discard

   return  char 1 to -2 of seriesB
end logScale

put logScale(72, 10) produces this series:

2,4,6,9,12,15,20,27,39,72

Best,


Mark



On 15 Jul 2007, at 02:27, David Bovill wrote:

> I am playing with some animation "zoom" effects - and have a maths  
> question.
> Say I want to scale something between 1 and 72 in10 steps - so i  
> need to
> generate a series of numbers between 1 and 72. Now i could just say  
> each
> step is 7 - but more natural would be for it to start slower and  
> get faster
> so i want an exponential series with 10 steps or something like  
> that :)
>
> Are there any ideas for natural type movements - straight acceleration
> (maybe with ease in and / or ease out)?
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