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JavaScript

Posted by Jordan Siu
Jordan Siu
10,042 Points

Creating Floating Particles?

Hi there. I was wondering whether anyone had the know how on how to go about learning how to do this:

http://www.jongaulin.com/articles/firefly/

What I mean is, I simply don't want to copy and paste something other than jQuery. Not sure if I've made any sense but I'd appreciate some direction. Thanks!

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points

I'm not sure what you mean by "copy and paste". The place where you found this has a small download package for anyone wanting to use it.

This is a plug-in created by Dharmveer Motyar in 2011. The sources are available on github. The author has made several improvements since the version you linked to, as recently as last month.

Basically, this plug-in uses the JQuery .animate() function to update the locations of several absolutely-positioned image elements towards randomly-selected destinations. If you're interested in details of how it was done, you might download the source and study it.

If you haven't already taken it, the material in the Object-Oriented Javascript course might be useful for understanding the structure of this plug-in.