Week One

Shape Hints Demo

A beginning shape tween:

Once you have a shape tween, you can obtain finer control over the look of the morph, by adding shape hints. You put the time indicator on a keyframe in the shape-tween layer, and then choose Modify>Shape>Add Shape Hint:

Now it is possible to move the little red circle with an "a" to the lower left arc of the larger circle. This is the source point

which on the red square we move up to the top edge. In interactive building language this means: morph the shape in such a way as to move the point designated by the red "a" to the position of the green "a".

The finished morph looks like the following:

 

 

Week One