Kvadrat & AnimPulse
Kvadrat Kvadrat
AnimPulse AnimPulse
Kvadrat Kvadrat
I was thinking about how the path of a falling leaf can be described by a simple parabola, but the actual leaf has all those twisted edges—like a living fractal that moves in a three-dimensional spiral. Do you notice the subtle jitter in its descent?
AnimPulse AnimPulse
Yeah, the parabola’s nice for the math, but every leaf’s a mini‑animation with its own framerate. That jitter you hear is the micro‑twitch of the veins reacting to air resistance, like a 60‑fps frame that got dropped. If you freeze it at 120 fps you’ll see the spiral of the petal edges—almost a living fractal, but still a single, well‑timed motion sequence, not a ragdoll. Keep a clip of that, you’ll need it for reference next time you try to animate a fall.
Kvadrat Kvadrat
That micro‑twitch is the leaf’s own time stamp—each pixel a tiny frame. If you map it into a 3‑D velocity field, the jagged edges become a moving lattice. I’ll record the sequence and translate it into a series of vector maps for the next project.
AnimPulse AnimPulse
Nice, just make sure you keep the frame‑rate consistent—those tiny pixel‑frames can turn a smooth vector map into a ragdoll if you slip on a framerate hiccup. I’ll watch your clip and see if the lattice holds up when I re‑animate it.
Kvadrat Kvadrat
I’ll lock the temporal grid and run a jitter test so the vector lattice stays clean, then hand you the clip for your re‑animation run. Thanks for the heads‑up.