
More-Complex Animation Tasks
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The Mystery of Motion Reversal
The Mystery of Motion Reversal
Imagine animating a small red square that moves from left to right, doubles in size, and turns
blue. You can reverse it in two ways: you can reverse the path to move a small red square from
right to left (where it doubles in size and turns blue), or you can reverse the keyframes to
move a large blue square from right to left (where it turns red and shrinks to half its size). e
results are straightforward for a simple animation with just a few changes, especially if the
changes take place in just two keyframes, one at the beginning of the tween span and ...