Creating dynamic text effects—Autumn (Fall)

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By Colin Ramsden, July 2008.

Creating dynamic text effects can be fun and a learning experience at the same time. The idea is to have the textual content (of the page) break-up into individual characters which then can behave independently of their original groupings of structured words, sentences and paragraphs.

In this particular project, I've applied the basic principles of Autumn (Fall) to have the text characters behave like falling leaves of a deciduous tree. Let's first consider the requirements for such a project.

Requirements

• The text characters are to behave like the leaves of a deciduous tree in Autumn (Fall), where they individually go brown, detach, fall down, and wither, decompose and return to the earth.
• Each individual character should behave like an individual leaf, independent of all the other leaves.
• External natural forces such as wind, sun, rain, snow, etcetera may optionally be applied, and must be catered for in the design and implementation of the project.
• The scripting language is to be standard client-side JavaScript, and not require the download and installation of plug-ins or add-ons to the client browser.
• The viewing media is to be platform-independent PC-based (not handheld) web browsers, not proprietary, although the ability to port the project to handheld-based browsers is not excluded.

These requirements are the minimum necessary to achieve the project goals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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