/** * Kinetic Type * by Zach Lieberman. * * Using push() and pop() to define the curves of the lines of type. */ Line ln; Line lns[]; String words[] = { "sometimes it's like", "the lines of text", "are so happy", "that they want to dance", "or leave the page or jump", "can you blame them?", "living on the page like that", "waiting to be read..." }; void setup() { size(640, 360, P3D); // Array of line objects lns = new Line[8]; // Load the font from the sketch's data directory textFont(loadFont("Univers66.vlw.gz"), 1.0); // White type fill(255); // Creating the line objects for(int i = 0; i < 8; i++) { // For every line in the array, create a Line object to animate // i * 70 is the spacing ln = new Line(words[i], 0, i * 70); lns[i] = ln; } } void draw() { background(0); translate(-200, -50, -450); rotateY(0.3); // Now animate every line object & draw it... for(int i = 0; i < 8; i++) { float f1 = sin((i + 1.0) * (millis() / 10000.0) * TWO_PI); float f2 = sin((8.0 - i) * (millis() / 10000.0) * TWO_PI); Line line = lns[i]; pushMatrix(); translate(0.0, line.yPosition, 0.0); for(int j = 0; j < line.myLetters.length; j++) { if(j != 0) { translate(textWidth(line.myLetters[j - 1].myChar) * 75, 0.0, 0.0); } rotateY(f1 * 0.005 * f2); pushMatrix(); scale(75.0); text(line.myLetters[j].myChar, 0.0, 0.0); popMatrix(); } popMatrix(); } }