digital_rain

Digital Rain

Animation notes

Source: https://github.com/carlnewton/digital-rain-analysis

Standard strings

1. Strings contain random glyphs from a defined set.
2. Strings don't move they just add new glyphs at the bottom for each frame.
3. Strings contain invisible glyphs.
4. Strings don't always start from the top.
   • They are sometimes preceded by invisible glyphs making them look like they start lower down.
5. Some glyphs remain static for three frames, and then change into another glyph.
   • Some strings consist entirely of changing glyphs.

Highlighted strings

1. Roughly 1 in 5 strings have highlighted glyphs.
   • Only a single glyph of a string is highlighted at a given time, and that glyph is leading glyph of the string.
2. All highlighted glyphs will stammer at the same time.
   • The stammer causes strings with highlighted glyphs to pause behind other strings by a single frame.

Deletion strings

1. Unlike regular strings, deletion strings can appear over the top of existing strings.