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Introducing Elastic

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 25, 2023

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Ever since 1.0, libadwaita has had spring animations. These animations aren’t controlled with a duration and an easing function, but instead with physical properties: damping ratio (or optionally damping), mass, stiffness and initial velocity, as well as epsilon. While this allows for a lot of control over the animation, it can be pretty hard to understand if you’re not familiar with physics involved, and to be truly useful it needs an editor.

=> ↺ spring animations

So, Elastic is that editor. It provides a way to tweak each parameter, explains what they do, allows to preview the animation in various ways, and generates the code to create that animation.

Read on

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Also: Felix Häcker: #84 Polished Circle ("Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 17 to February 24."

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