Back in part 5 of my series on SinterPixels demos: I showed how to make a grid by repeating this tile:

to make:

SinterPixels is great at making images like that, but SinterPixels is unique in how it generates movies. So after generating a grid like that, its easy to go ahead and generate a movie like this:

In the script, we just select a random tile and spin it by 90 degrees, saving a movie frame every 2 degrees. Here’s the script to generate the movie (prerequisite: make the grid as shown in the post here


tell application "SinterPixels"

tell document 1

start filming

record movie frame

repeat 10 times

set y to some item of {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}

set x to some item of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}

set n to x + y * 10

set nthTile to layer n

set rot to rotation of nthTile

repeat with r from 1 to 45

set rotation of nthTile to rot + (r * 2)

record movie frame

end repeat

end repeat

stop filming

end tell

end tell