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Animating a Bouquet of Flowers
Welcome to the next project. Here, we will create a bouquet of flowers, animate the flower petals so they open and close, and then add a smoke/vapor effect to make it look like the flower is breathing by using the blur modifier.
Behind the flowers, we will place a winter backdrop, and make it snow too by using the CAEmitter class. The CAEmitter class is a UIKit class that was built for animation, but to be able to access it, we will need to use a SwiftUI bridging protocol called UIViewRepresentable. The UIViewRepresentable protocol will let us bridge the two frameworks, UIKit and SwiftUI.
Accompanying this, we will include two labels – Breathe In and Breathe Out – so that you can breathe along with the flowers, ...
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