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autolayout animate node position

Open forresto opened this issue 11 years ago • 2 comments

From a friend that read the Kickstarter update:

are you gonna have a little animation that shows the graph moving to the new layout? just a half-second thing. cos if you're watching, and you have a feel for where the components are, your brain will register the new locations and you won't have to look for em.

Now that we can animate component state (#165 thanks to @djdeath) we should look at animating nodes on autolayout. This kind of animation will help visualize what is moving where.

Also useful for

  • collaboration, when somebody else is moving a node
  • journal undo / redo

This is a little complicated because edges will need to be animated as well, so it will need to happen at the-graph-graph level.

forresto avatar Sep 17 '14 06:09 forresto

This should probably wait until I abstract out a new "store" for all of the state (#176). Now we're a little too tied to the noflo.Graph.

forresto avatar Sep 17 '14 06:09 forresto

:+1:

automata avatar Oct 26 '14 07:10 automata