Taxonomy of Simple Animation Cycles

[Nina Paley]

As a reference, here are some code-able simple animations that can be applied to many things, illustrated with 2-second/30-frame gifs at 15 fps:

1. float
   
2. pulsate
   
3. rotate around anchor point
   
4. rotate around centroid (geometric center)
   
5. glide horizontal
   
6. glide vertical
   
7. scale forever (here I used 3 instances of the same 90-frame symbol/animation, so the whole cycle could be 30 frames):
   
8. follow path (3 instances of 90-frame cycle used here as well):
   
   There can and will surely be others, but this should be plenty to start with. If following a path is too complicated we can drop it like a hot potato.