Rotate object

I am preparing a Keynote presentation for my boss. On one of the slides there is the phrase "what goes around comes around". I have figured out how to rotate the phrase either clockwise or counter-clockwise. However, is there a way to get the phrase to rotate on the z-axis making it look as if it is rotating to the back of the screen and then out again? if so, then please send me exact directions. I will be most grateful for the advice.

That sounds like it would be a cool effect, but it's not an animation that keynote currently accepts as a build or transition.

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Right, so this is where Illustrator falls short with respect you your need, but only in the sense that the reference point can't be made to stick. You can, however, use Smart Guides to make it so the point is easy to set at exactly the same location, (especially since your object has an anchor point there), manually before each rotation.

Rotating objects in a table

I have dropped an object (picture) into a pages document. Then I rotated it with 90°. When I copy or drop the picture into the cell of a table, it is rotated back into the original orientation and I cannot rotate it any more.
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Is it possible to create a rotating object in Muse?

Is it possible to create a rotating object in Muse? I have a round logo and I want it rotating.

HI
If you are looking for an animated logo, which rotates in 360 degree, it is not possible in Muse. You can create an animation in Edge animate and import the animation in Adobe muse.,

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Is there any done program that can rotate objects from graph?
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I'm not sure what you are asking for. You can rotate an image with [url http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/geom/AffineTransform.html]AffineTransform. You can look at the source for it in src.zip. You can [url http://onesearch.sun.com/search/developers/index.jsp?col=devforums&qp_name=Algorithms&qp=forum%3A426&qt=rotate]search for algorithms.

Noob question, can't rotate object clockwise. Please see the pictures below.

Hello everybody!
I'm stuck at rotating objects as I tried to follow a tutorial.
I think the answer is very simple, but because of my weak English, i can't even figure it out how to search for it on Google. tio
So my question is how to rotate objects like this:
Instead of this (That's how i can only rotate this object.):
Thanks in advance!

zollre,
- before the value gives you clockwise. Basically, rotate angles are counterclockwise (with an implied + before the value).
-20 degrees corresponds to 340 degrees (almost a full round counterclockwise).

How to rotate objects or pictures on my FP?

Hi there,
i'd like to rotate objects on my front panel programmatically, e.g. a pasted arrow to indicate a direction . As an alternative i could imagine to rotate a picture in some kind of AcvtiveX control. does anybody got a clue?
thanks
chris
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Rotating an arbitrary picture is just a transformation, should also be easy.
I made a quick example (LabVIEW 7.1), see if it makes sense. Message Edited by altenbach on 03-22-2005 10:11 AM
LabVIEW Champion . Do more with less code and in less time .
Attachments:
RotateImage.vi ‏80 KB

Rotating object around global axises.

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My Behaviour class code goes here:
(some variables names are in my native language)
public static class ObjectManipulation extends Behavior{
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                        if( event.getID() == KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED )
checkEvent((KeyEvent)event[i]);
this.wakeupOn(new WakeupOnAWTEvent(KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED));
private void checkEvent(KeyEvent ke) {
int klawisz = ke.getKeyCode();
if(klawisz == KeyEvent.VK_S) {
temp_trans.rotY(Math.PI/10.0f);
trans.mul(temp_trans);
targetTG.setTransform(trans);
} else if (klawisz == KeyEvent.VK_A) {
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trans.mul(temp_trans);
targetTG.setTransform(trans);
} else if (klawisz == KeyEvent.VK_W) {
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trans.mul(temp_trans);
targetTG.setTransform(trans);
} else if (klawisz == KeyEvent.VK_Z) {
temp_trans.rotX(Math.PI/-10.0f);
trans.mul(temp_trans);
targetTG.setTransform(trans);
} else if (klawisz == KeyEvent.VK_X) {
temp_trans.rotZ(Math.PI/10.0f);
trans.mul(temp_trans);
targetTG.setTransform(trans);
} else if (klawisz == KeyEvent.VK_C) {
temp_trans.rotZ(Math.PI/-10.0f);
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skala += 0.1f;
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trans.setScale(skala);
targetTG.setTransform(trans);

OK, using the tornado example. i want the point where the 'tornado' meets the 'ground' to spin so that the 'tornado', well, looks like a tornado, spinning around a specific, i.e. x,y,z pixel. instead i have a tornado that seems to be pulling doughnuts in the farm carving out a huge cirlce (like the aliens do) rather than what a stationery tornado would carve out (if there was such a thing).
if it helps, think about the bounding box that surrounds an object or layer. the entire bounding box spins around the anchor point, or at least that's what it seems it is doing. it draws a huge circle that it ROTATES around rather then one point that is SPINS around. think about rotating a camera around it's Y axis, the whole box rotates, moving everything rather than spinning without moving. thanks.
hope this helps.

HT4641 How do I rotate objects and text ?

I do not know how to rotate my document too change to landscape . Want 11.5 x 8 . Thanks, Bill

You don't rotate the document on an iPad; you can rotate the objects on the document.
That said, you can't rotate in-line text and headers and footers, only text boxes and images/shapes.
To rotate the document, you will need to export it to a Mac and change the orientation there in Page Setup. The iPad document setup is lacking this feature.
Sorry.

Rotate object based on the mouse movement

Hi, how can I do to make the object rotate based on the direction and movement of the mouse?
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Thanks in advanced.

Hi ,
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var center_x = (offset.left) + (img.width()/2);
var center_y = (offset.top) + (img.height()/2);
var mouse_x = e.pageX;
var mouse_y = e.pageY;
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Rotating object sampling quality issues

A student of mine asked this question today. Rotating sharp-edged artwork seems to be problematic in Photoshop.
Take this grid:
Original file (6 colours):
www.estructor.biz/testje/grid2.png
Now rotate by 45 degrees.
These are the results in Photoshop CS6 labeled by sampling method:
www.estructor.biz/testje/ps_grid.png
And these are the results in Photoline (latest beta introduced improved two new sampling algorithms):
www.estructor.biz/testje/pl_grid.png
I uploaded the raw png files to my own server, otherwise the quality may be affected by the upload function here.
To compare both, open them in Photoshop and zoom to 200% or 400%, and notice how Photoshop's versions do not compare favourably: some sort of unsharp mask sharpening effect was introduced, resulting in halos.
The CatmullRom version generated in Photoline seems to be the best one, though the ones with MitchellNetravali, Lanczos3 and even bicubic all arguably produced better anti-aliased versions than the ones in Photoshop. In Photoshop only Bicubic Smooth is acceptable (in my opinion), though the anti-aliasing is too smooth looking.
I am aware the effects can be subtle - though they are quite noticeable. I mean, why does Photoshop's bicubic sampling prodube such an inferior version compared to Photoline? It makes no sense.
A secondary observation I made is that Photoshop's version introduced 2271 colours into the rotated version, while Photoline only used 231 unique colours after transformation. Which, with Photoline's version being the superior one, exacerbates the problem in my view, because it will add to the final artwork's file size (may be very important for both web graphics and 2d game graphics).
From a user experience view point, another issue is that Photoshop CS6 will not render the final result as a preview before the actual transformation is applied - meaning the user is left to first apply the transformation, and then she/he is forced to undo, and redo until satisfied. In Photoline, for example, the transformation's sampling method can be changed and the actual result is shown before committing to a sampling method.
All this is not that important to me for my own personal work, because I switched to Photoline and other software more than a year ago. However, I do still want to be able to answer questions from students in regards to Photoshop, so I feel it is an important aspect.
So, my (and my students') questions are:
- is it possible to turn off that unsharp mask-like effect when rotating?
- are there ways to improve the sampling somehow?
- down-sampling sharp artwork also introduces similar problems. Any way to circumvent them?
- placing the grid/dragging the grid file into a photoshop file produces a terrible result. Only by opening the grid file first, and copying and pasting is the original artwork preserved. Drag and drop does not function properly (and refuses to place at 100% automatically). Any solutions to change the drag and drop behaviour to automatically resample?
(btw, this does not happen in Photoline either - drag and drop does not (and should not!) resample in this case!)
- have these issues been resolved in Photoshop CC latest version?
- if the current versions of CS6 or CC do not offer solutions for this type of work, is this something that will be fixed in an upcoming release? Or is it not at all on the radar?
Thanks.
ps As mentioned before in the Illustrator forum, exporting sharp artwork from Illustrator at low screen resolutions is by far the lesser of a viable option - the anti-aliasing is absolutely horrid, unless the artwork is directly imported into Photoshop and severely blown up, and then scaled down. And even then the results are not on par with Mitchel-Netravali and Catmul Rom.

@Steve: thanks, but I am quite experienced, and I did not import the vector itself, but a straightforward bitmap grid to avoid any interpolation while importing and converting the vector graphic itself. Also see the first paragraph in my response to Mike below .
@Mike: importing the grid as a smart illustrator object does indeed help - but the lines are too thick and dark looking compared to Mitchell-Netravali and Catmull-Rom.
Exporting your screen sized artwork from Illustrator using the save for web option is positively the worst option: the quality is unacceptable in most cases. I've done a small write up concerning the bad anti-aliasing as a result of Illustrator's web export here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6002543#6002543
The only workable solution to get the best anti-aliased down-scaled artwork from Illustrator is to blow up the artwork to a large size, then rasterize, and scale down again. Even then the final quality as a result of the built-in sampling algorithms of Photoshop will not be on par with Photoline or ImageMagick.
And, of course, not always is a vector version available. The screen artwork I receive is often bitmap based, which proves to be problematic for transformation jobs in Photoshop.
Gif is merely 8bit indexed, and would not solve the issue - reducing the number of colours is no solution for poor anti-aliasing along edges.
@Chris: I am unsure how you can say that - yes, Catmull-Rom is known to be a less than ideal re-sampling method for up-scaling images. That said, it works wonderfully well for down-sampling images or as a sampling method to transform lower resolution bitmap based artwork - essential for screen based work and web jobs.
Lanczos does a meagre job for down-sampling (with Lanczos8 especially bad in terms of artifacts), but a very good job for up-sampling images. We have to know the goal to identify the best method/approach/solution.
Although I am certain you are familiar with the math, the example shown on this page demonstrates that Catmull-Rom and Mitchell-Netravali do in fact work best for down-sampling images: http://pixinsight.com/doc/docs/InterpolationAlgorithms/InterpolationAlgorithms.html
And I am not inventing all this - for lower resolution sharp edged illustrative artwork Photoshop has always been rather awkward. The sampling methods currently implemented in Photoshop deal very well with high resolution artwork and photographic media, but fare poorly with lower resolution graphics.
The demonstration files I prepared earlier and linked in my original question show unequivocally that Photoshop's current sampling algorithms deal poorly in this regard! I did not even bother to include Bicubic Automatic, because that looked positively awful.
I do understand why that is - traditionally it has never been Photoshop's focus I think. Looking at the bare-bones results, though, I am inclined to conclude that both Mitchell-Netravali and Catmull-Rom do indeed produce superior results for down-sampling and re-sampling during transformations of lower resolution images - both sharp-edged artwork, as well as photos.
This has been my experience for years now dealing with 2d game graphics, web work, and general screen graphics work. It is one of the reasons why I left Photoshop and Illustrator early on for this type of work.
So it eludes me why these are not available in Photoshop. Because as far as the results are concerned, they seem to be quite good enough to ship.

Rotating object to follow mouse

Okay, say I have an object (a bee in this case) that I want
to follow the
mouse around, that part's easy:
property my,oldLoc
on beginSprite me
my = sprite(me.spriteNum)
oldLoc = my.loc
end
on exitFrame me
my.loc = the mouseLoc
if diff(my.locV,oldLoc.locV) + diff(my.locH,oldLoc.locH)
> 5 then
my.member = "BeeBuzz"
else my.member = "BeeStill"
oldLoc = my.loc
end
It even includes a cute little function to make the wings
buzz when it's
moving, and not when it's standing still. The tricky part is
I want to have
some way of making the bee rotate to move in the direction
the mouse moves.
This seems to *almost* work, except that when the locV
doesn't change, it
results in a divide-by-zero error:
my.rotation = atan((oldLoc.locH - my.locH) / (oldLoc.locV -
my.locV)) *
57.2958
I could check and artificially add a small amount to avoid
the
divide-by-zero, but that seems like a hash. Is there a better
way to do
this correctly?
(And does anybody mind if I rant a bit about how all rotation
properties in
the program operate in degrees, while all the trig functions
operate in
radians? And the program doesn't include a method to convert
between them
either. That's just annoying.)

Thanks. I generally try to avoid the Library behaviors
because I've found
that they mostly seem to be 98% unnecessary error-checking
and 2% functional
code, and it can often be very difficult to find and extract
that tiny
little bit of code that actually DOES anything. However, in
this case I was
able to pull a bit of useful code out of the Turn Towards
Mouse behavior -
extremely simplified of course. It didn't work at all out of
the box. For
the record, the code I used looks like this:
angle = GetAngle(oldLoc - my.loc) - 90
if my.rotation <> angle then my.rotation = angle
With the following code copied (mostly verbatim, but
simplified) from the
Turn Towards Mouse:
on GetAngle slope
deltaH = slope[1]
deltaV = slope[2]
if deltaH then
slope = float (deltaV) / deltaH
angle = atan (slope)
if deltaH < 0 then angle = angle + pi
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else if deltaV < 0 then angle = (3 * pi) / 2
else angle = 0
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return (angle * 180) / pi
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It seems to do pretty much what my original code did, only it
considers
those divide-by-zero situations separately as special cases.
Still seems
like more code than should be necessary to do what it does -
this feels like
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code, but
apparently it's not that simple...

Rotate object to match path or another object

How do I rotate an object to either make one of its sides match another object, or become totally horizontal/vertical.
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(This is one of those ridiculously elementary things that mystified me too, for longer than I would've liked, but I finally figured it out.)
Like Carlos depicts in his post above, the key is having Smart Guides on, and then setting the rotation point by single-clicking somewhere once you have the Rotate Tool seletected.
Snap the two shapes in question together on the same point. Also, set the rotation point at that same point.
NOW, referring to the shape who's rotation to you need to modify: click and drag (making sure to always snap) on one of the two segments, which is connected by the point where you snapped the rotation point to and rotate it until your cursor contacts the shape who's rotation is already correct. Instead of grabbing a segment, you can also grab another point of the same shape.
I wish Wade would've included that in his video - it's hard to explain.
Once you set the rotation point, you can click anywhere and cause the selected object to "pivot" that your designated rotation point. Using a point on the rotation-needing shape it especially effective. Illie's snaps aren't the best - using points is the surest way to snap correctly.

How to rotate objects?

Extremely basic question I'm guessing.
Simply need to rotate an object by a few degrees. Every time
I do this the object increases in size.
Don't want it to change size, just rotate.
Help documentation didn't seem to offer any insight into how
this works.

I think my questions is even more simple than that...
Not looking to have an object rotate, move, etc...
Just placing things on the stage. Wanted a rectangle drawing
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would some help me with this, I am trying to understand what part of AS3 script says loop through(create a continues 360 loop of objects) the images from an XML file, does this make any sense.
in my script I have this
for(var i:int = 0; i < images.length(); i++)
is this the part that says loop the images/objects
this is a little more to the script including the above to maybe understand better?
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ok I found this menu which rotates item around on a 360 wheel trying to see if I can use the same script on my menu,
link to example: http://art.clubworldgroup.com/menu/R...g_menu_AS3.zip
I have highlighted in blue what creates the loop of items
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Rotation object on RT Target

Is there a reason why a graphic object will not display when the project is deployed to a real time target?
I am attempting to visualize sensor outputs by observing the position of a graphics object on the LV Front Panel.
Thanks.
Attachments:
Graphics.vi ‏14 KB

Richard1000 wrote:
The Set Rotation is the RT VI? Or it becomes a RT VI when deployed to a RT Target?
When running in the development environment, is there an alternative approach allowing sensor values to update the orientation of the graphic object?
Thanks.
It becomes an RT vi when deployed to the target.
The alternative approach is actually the correct approach . You create a VI that runs standalone and headless on the RT platform. You then use some sort of network communication (see: TCP/IP) to pass the values up to a host computer. The host computer reads the values and displays them.
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