A somewhat feeble attempt to do this can be seen at http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/A2.svg
Note that the middle lower example sort of works, by putting four different values of the d attribute into an interpolated animation. Perhaps with eight values the effect would be more accurate (four more at 45, 135. 225, and 315 degrees each). Not sure, but the interpolation might simulate rotation, if sufficiently many intermediate states of the pseudo-ellipse are provided, then it might sorta work. Of course, then the author would have to sit and work out all the trig of the transformed coordinates for all 8 interpolated values (the 90 degree ones were simple, since I just permuted the coordinates within the d attribute) Unless someone sees something obvious that I'm missing, would it make sense to propose that animation along a path be able to follow a path even when it is being transformed? Cheers D From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Dailey Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 2:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] following a moving path Observe the examples in http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/A1.svg In all browsers but Firefox (where I've filed a bug report) and IE (which seems not to yet support SVG animation) the red oval follows a path that is itself animated (by animating its d attribute). But supposing we want to have an oval (the blue one) follow a path that is not "deforming" but is rotating. It seems as though there is no way to do that. Can anyone think of a way to do it short of amending the SVG spec? (or using script - which is so hideously inelegant that no cultured person would seriously consider it <humor/>) Cheers D [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
