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34 minutes ago, Nick Armory said:

This is awesome!  Apple script?  

 

It's both awesome and ridiculous at the same time.  Classic Mr. Russell.  James, I hope you can find the spinning car file.  I've misplaced it, but I remember it being really cool.

 

James is using Vector Script, in this case a version Pascal.  It could also be done in Python.  To animate a parametric object, you would have to use a Vector Script (Pascal or Python) inside an Apple Script.

 

And it would run as poorly as it sounds like it would. 🙂

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1 hour ago, Nick Armory said:

 is it possible to automate the movement?  

 

I don't think so.  A while back, @James Russell had a really fun script where he animated a car on a turntable and a curtain flying away to reveal it.  That was 5 years ago and all the attached files are lost to the sofa cushions of the internet.  But in the last 5 years, who knows what he's been able to animate.

 

Unfortunately, parametric objects don't redraw during the execution of a script.  So scripting probably doesn't work.  We were able to play around with animating a parametric object with apple script.  But it's not an elegant solution.