AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation

Chapter 10TWEEN ENGINES

In Chapter 8 of Making Things Move I wrote about a subject called easing. I called this type of easing simple easing because it was quite easy to implement and had limited power and flexibility. This type of easing consists of having an object and a target location for that object to move to. On each frame you calculate the distance between the object and the target and move it one-half (or some other fraction) of that distance. The object moves smoothly into place, slowing down as it arrives at the target.

In that chapter I made reference to Robert Penner's easing functions and suggested that you look into them, (referring to them as advanced easing). This was a subject I would have liked to write about back then, but ...