Fast twirling text… for real!

Remember that old cairo-demo. These days twirling text can actually be edited in real-time:

The same clip on YouTube.

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15 Responses to “Fast twirling text… for real!”

  1. Stelios Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 am

    This is very impressive!

  2. mike Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    Wow.

    and thanks for the oggs, that’s really neat together with FF 3.5 :)

  3. Bla Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    Very nice, thanks for the OGGs.
    I’am curious; what is the font you use.in the UI (with the remarkably big “2″) ?

  4. MacSlow Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    Candara

  5. Bla Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    Thanks!

  6. Jonathan Doyle Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    What theme is that?

  7. MacSlow Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    It’s called Dust.

  8. jendap Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Sweet! But what’s the point? Is it just for fun? Is this a real effort to finally make cairo gpu accelerated (by default)? I would help if this aims to be more than a couple of oggs ;-)

  9. MacSlow Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    For the moment I regard it as semi-serious :)

  10. sxpert Says:
    June 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 am

    there appears to be a rendering bug when you’re using that hideous font.
    there’s a straight line appearing at the bottom of the “E”s

  11. MacSlow Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    If you are refering to the capital letter “E” there, that’s not a rendering bug. There are just two control-points in a “LINE_TO”-section, thus there isn’t much the transformation twirl can do about it. There are rendering bugs (missing, non-implemented features) nevertheless. But what you mentioned there is not one of them.

  12. tretle Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    This sort of reminds me of a project which was developed for MacOSX by some third party(not apple) which I saw someone blog about some time ago. I cant remember the name of the project but it was really interesting. They basically made each character an object on a 2d plane which reacted to the physics of said plain.
    They had a cool youtube video with all of the different effects like using a fisheye type of effect on a document and having effects for when you actually typed the characters and other effects like having all the characters on a page explode and then implode back into place.
    Would be cool to see you take this in a similar direction.
    Once again, you have started work on an interesting project. I look forward to seeing how it progresses.

  13. MacSlow Says:
    June 6th, 2009 at 3:34 am

    You do not happen to think of Keynote, do you? The described effects remind me of it a bit. But then, Keynote is an Apple product, so it might not be what you’re refereing to. Could you find and post the link to the mentioned clip? I’m curious. While I do not really target a specific application with this, rather an improvement to cairo itself, it could very well be used for some of the mentioned effects.

  14. tretle Says:
    June 26th, 2009 at 6:51 am

    Took me a few hours trying to remember what I was originally looking for to find the site I accidentally found back then and then it took a few hours sifting through the blog for the right post but there it is in all its glory. The demo still makes my jaw drop today :) :p

    http://createdigitalmotion.com/2007/08/01/emotion-quartz-powered-particle-based-madness/

  15. MacSlow Says:
    June 26th, 2009 at 11:45 am

    @ tretle: Very sweet finding! Working on that looks like a lot of fun!!!

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