Connect the Dots

One of my first Processing projects was a series of connect the dots style animations, like this:

As the project grew I also made printable designs. I used these designs for the covers of my holiday cards and the back of my personal cards.

To facilitate the work positioning the dots, I built an Inkscape extension in Python. It extracts path information from a SVG file and creates the correct input file for my Processing program. Using this tool, I can make new designs in an hour or two.

The animations can be found on Vimeo.

• Merry Christmas

• Happy Holidays

• A Duck

• A Red Rose

• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

The rose animation was featured as the "Wonder of the Day" on wonderopolis.org and has been viewed by a few thousand 3rd graders.

And the pdf files. Fun for the whole family!

• Bull

• Break-dancer

• Raven

• A Red Rose

• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

• A Duck

• Happy Holidays

• Merry Christmas

• Monkey

• T-Rex

• Triceratops

• Pterodactyl