AFrame-brownian-motion

This is based on:

• https://github.com/keijiro/ProceduralMotion/blob/master/Packages/jp.keijiro.klak.motion/Runtime/BrownianMotion.cs
• https://github.com/josephg/noisejs

Demo

Quick Start

Include the script in the head of your page

<!-- in head -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/aframe-brownian-motion@2.0.1/build/aframe-brownian-motion.min.js"></script>

Basic

This has the objects fly randomly

<!-- in a-scene -->
<a-cylinder shadow position="0 1 -2" radius="0.2" height="0.4" brownian-motion="speed:0.2;"></a-cylinder>
<a-torus-knot shadow position="0 1 -2" radius-tubular="0.03" radius="0.15" height="0.4" brownian-motion="speed:0.5;positionVariance:2 2 2;rotationVariance:5 5 5;"></a-torus-knot>
<a-box shadow position="-0.5 0.2 -2" width="0.4" depth="0.4" height="0.4" brownian-motion="speed:0.9;positionVariance:2 0 2;rotationVariance:5 5 5;"></a-box>

Flocking Behaviour

The space vector component can be used have objects follow similar but divergent over time paths.

It's 6 numbers representing x,y,z and position and x,y,z Euler rotation. If two numbers are the same then the corresponding values in the animation will remain the same.

These also make animations reproducable. If you set the spaceVector to a number it will do the same animation everytime you reload the page.

Similar numbers will behave similarly:

i.e. 10 and 10 will do the exact same animation. 128 and 128.1 will do very similar but slightly animations.

If you leave any of the numbers undefined then they will be assigned random numbers. So ,,,20,30,40 will do random position motion but fixed rotation motion

<a-cylinder   brownian-motion="positionVariance:3 3 3;spaceVector:10.1,20.1,30.1,10.1,20.1,30.1;speed:0.5;" shadow position="0 1 0" radius="0.2" height="0.4" ></a-cylinder>
<a-torus-knot brownian-motion="positionVariance:3 3 3;spaceVector:10.2,20.2,30.2,10.2,20.2,30.2;speed:0.5;" shadow position="0 1 0" radius-tubular="0.03" radius="0.15" height="0.4" ></a-torus-knot>
<a-box        brownian-motion="positionVariance:3 3 3;spaceVector:10.3,20.3,30.3,10.3,20.3,30.3;speed:0.5;" shadow position="0 1 0" width="0.4" depth="0.4" height="0.4" ></a-box>

Instancing and Paths

There is a more complex component which can pick an element which will clone with instancing, so you can have many of them, and move them along along a brownian path. You can make them move synchronously or indepently by controlling the spaceVectorOffset parameter.

Example, this will draw 40 lines and clone the object 40 times to travel along those lines, either the lines can be turned off or the object not provided to hide one or the other

<a-torus-knot shadow radius-tubular="0.002" id="thing-to-clone" visible="false" radius="0.1"></a-torus-knot>

<a-entity position="0 1 0" brownian-path="count:40;object:#thing-to-clone;positionVariance:2 2 2;showLine:true;spaceVectorOffset:0.02,0.02,0.02,0.02,0.02,0.02;" shadow></a-entity>

Docs

brownian-motion component

This component animates an object

Property	Type	Description	Default
spaceVector	array	Where in the phase space the starts, this should be an array of 6 values where empty spaces become a random number between -1000 and 1000
octaves	number	How fine grained the motion is	2
positionVariance	vec3	How much it should be moved by	{}
rotationVariance	vec3	How much it should rotate by	{}
speed	number	Speed multiplier	1
rotationFollowsAxis	string	If the object should follow the path along certain axis, set it here. One of x, y, z, -x, -y, -z, , none	"none"

brownian-path component

This component animates an object

Property	Type	Description	Default
object	selector	Which object to instance with brownian-motion
showLine	boolean	Whether to draw lines	false
lineColor1	color	Color of the first line	"orange"
lineColor2	color	Color of the last line	"hotpink"
lineStart	number	Time stamp to start drawing the lines at	0
lineStep	number	Steps to take in drawing the path	20
lineEnd	number	Time stamp to stop drawing the lines at	10000
spaceVectorOffset	array	Space vector offset for each instance/line
count	number	Number of lines or instances	10
spaceVector	array	Where in the phase space the starts, this should be an array of 6 values where empty spaces become a random number between -1000 and 1000
octaves	number	How fine grained the motion is	2
positionVariance	vec3	How much it should be moved by	{}
rotationVariance	vec3	How much it should rotate by	{}
speed	number	Speed multiplier	1
rotationFollowsAxis	string	If the object should follow the path along certain axis, set it here. One of x, y, z, -x, -y, -z, , none	"none"