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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: Webpage background JS non-stop animation idea
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luserdroog:

> On Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 12:00:55 PM UTC-5, robamm...@hotmail.com wrote:
[...]
>>> Make for example 12 shapes of characters.
>>> With random number generator pick a place on screen and draw the shape.
>>> Then find next shape and position, that does not match first one.
>>> Make a smooth points moving from one shape to another.
>>> Then find next position and continue the process until the webpage stays open.
[...]
> It all seems pretty straightforward except for snagging the character paths
> from a font. I know how to do it in PostScript but not JS.

Maybe using SVG may work:

<https://greensock.com/morphSVG>


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