Creating a twirl effect in MX

kpsrza

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Sep 1, 2005, 10:23:04 PM9/1/05

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I was wodnering how to create a twirl effect in flash mx...i am completely stumped thanks in advance
-steve

Chris (mudbubble)

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Sep 1, 2005, 10:25:12 PM9/1/05

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what do you mean by "twirl"?

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kpsrza

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Sep 1, 2005, 10:38:27 PM9/1/05

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like a swirl effect as shown here
http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/twirl.asp

Chris (mudbubble)

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Sep 1, 2005, 10:53:49 PM9/1/05

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there is no automated (filter) way to do that in flash. I did one for a client a while back:
http://www.swirlkids.com/
and had to manually draw it with flash's drawing tools.

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kpsrza

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Sep 2, 2005, 10:48:58 AM9/2/05

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well thats sorta what i wanted but i wanted to now if the swirl could in anyway "unswirl" into a graphic than swirl back

tralfaz

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Sep 2, 2005, 11:03:50 AM9/2/05

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"kpsrza" <webfor...@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> well thats sorta what i wanted but i wanted to now if the swirl
> could in anyway "unswirl" into a graphic than swirl back

It has to be done with math unless it is really simple graphically.
Here are some examples of math based graphics..
http://krazydad.com/bestiary/
They aren't exactly what you asked about but similar. They have
source code there to download too.
tralfaz

Chris (mudbubble)

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Sep 2, 2005, 1:00:24 PM9/2/05

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the only way i know of is to use after effects to "morph" the images together or a true morphing
program - export as an image sequence and then import into flash as a series of images.

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