On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:02:48 -0700, Jacob Beard <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to animate path data using SMIL? For example, if I have
> a simple arc:
>
> <path d="M0,400 A100,100 0 1,1 800,400"/>
Yeah, although you should make the number of points the same. So for
turning a triangle into a square I might use
<path d="L 100 0 L 100 0 L 100 100 z">
<animate attributeName="d" ...
to="L 100 0 L 100 100 L 0 100 z"/>
</path>
cheers
Chaals
> And would like to animate the endpoint, so that it starts at 0,0 and
> ends at 800,400 over a duration of 3 seconds, for example. Because "d"
> contains path data, and not simple numerical values, it's not clear to
> me whether the path data can be animated with SMIL. It seems like, in
> order to animate path data with SMIL, you might need an expanded path
> data syntax, like that described in Section 3.1 of the paper
> "Compressing SVG with EXI" from the SVG Open 2010 conference, as this
> gives you elements for each path segment, each of which has simple
> numerical attributes that could potentially be animated:
> http://svgopen.org/2010/papers/3-Compressing_SVG_with_EXI/index.html
>
> But perhaps I'm missing something, and it is currently possible to
> animate path data with SMIL.
>
> If anyone has any insight into this, I'd appreciate it if you could
> let me know. Thanks,
>
> Jake
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