How to animate path morphs using snap.svg

Les Ballard picture Les Ballard · Apr 10, 2014 · Viewed 20.4k times · Source

I have been searching for a good example on how to animate a svg path morph. I know how to do do pretty complex ones using SMIL, but snap.svg is new and shiny, and everyone seems to love it, so I'd like to take a look. I can't find a good example anywhere on how to do n animated path morph anywhere. Hopefully a snap.svg guru could point me in the right direction?

here's a link to the svg image and the code for it:

link to image

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="600" height="400">
  <path id="thing"  d="M94.2,265.7L82,203.4c43.3-15.6,83.8-29.2,137.1-20.2c61.5-27.6,126.1-56.9,202.6-46.1c18.7,18.9,21.5,39.8,12.2,62.3C322.7,231.9,208.2,247.6,94.2,265.7z">
    <animate id="myAnimationElement" dur="2s" begin="0" repeatCount="indefinite" attributeName="d"
         values="M94.2,265.7L82,203.4c43.3-15.6,83.8-29.2,137.1-20.2c61.5-27.6,126.1-56.9,202.6-46.1c18.7,18.9,21.5,39.8,12.2,62.3C322.7,231.9,208.2,247.6,94.2,265.7z;

                M179.4,83.5l62.4-11.8c15.3,43.4-76,102.6-22.6,111.5c61.5-27.6,126.1-56.9,202.6-46.1c18.7,18.9,21.5,39.8,12.2,62.3C250.6,296.7,52.4,259.2,179.4,83.5z;"/>
  </path>
</svg>

Answer

Ian picture Ian · Apr 10, 2014

Not quite sure if you mean you just want the current animation in Snap or something different. Just to give an example of how one would typically do some animation...

s = Snap(400, 620);

var path = s.path("M94.2,265.7L82,203.4c43.3-15.6,83.8-29.2,137.1-20.2c61.5-27.6,126.1-56.9,202.6 46.1c18.7,18.9,21.5,39.8,12.2,62.3C322.7,231.9,208.2,247.6,94.2,265.7z");

path.animate({ d: "M179.4,83.5l62.4-11.8c15.3,43.4-76,102.6-22.6,111.5c61.5-27.6,126.1-56.9,202.6-46.1c18.7,18.9,21.5,39.8,12.2,62.3C250.6,296.7,52.4,259.2,179.4,83.5z" }, 1000, mina.bounce);

jsfiddle

Edit: There needs to be the same amount of points on the path to morph from/to.