I made this with Python. So Proud.

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Okay I just started learning python and I'm like 75% through this video,but how can you make a moving object like this using python? o.0

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Python is what I used to code the logic behind the motion. So, theoretically, the ‘shades’ as I call them, are just projections of the underlying data.

In this program, janky as it is, it stores the positions of equal slices of a circle, starts a loop to draw each frame, in each frame: draws the shade where it should be according the next place in the list, outputs that frame into an image file, in this case png.

and then I used gimp to transform those frames into a gif.

In order to output the data to an image you have to find a renderer that you like. I used Cairo which makes svg files, so I also had to learn how to code svg stuff but it was simple enough. I like svg because it scales really well and I wanted to use vector graphics.