I have to do a report on food webs due in two weeks. I'd like to do a simple animation to the food web we're studying. See the example food web I attached. (thanks to this page for the food web)
What I would like is to have my food web fill the screen, as I'm planning to do a presentation. The idea that I had is that when I press on one of the species, this one lights up and the line joining it with the other species in the food web lights up as well. The "lighting up" would be in the form of a small pulse that originates form the species I clicked and reaches the other species (in this case, the species that feed on the selected one). The predator species would also light up.
I would also like the option to press a button (or click/slide/whatever, as long as it's small) and have the same effect as above, only that this time the species I click on lights up, the species that feed on this light up and so on until the final species is reached (this is to demonstrate the effect of removing one species)
For example: If I click on the "Pelagic Crustaceans", it would light up, as would the 5 lines connecting it with the "Polar Cod", "Capelin/Cod", "Little Auk", "Brünnich's Guillemot" and the "Amphipods/Krill/Prawns". These last five species (or groups) would light up as well.
Now I click the "all levels" button described above. Now when I press on the "Pelagic Crustaceans", the four lines mentioned before light up, as well as the ones joining the 5 species/groups mentioned to the ones that predate on these.
One final thing: If I click on the species at the bottom, the lines would be of one color (blue, for example). If I click on a species of a higher level in the food web (the Polar cod, for instance) the pulse would be of a different color.
BTW, by default the pulses would only travel upwards in the food web (towards the predators), but if there could be a button to inverse that, it'd be excellent!
Is this possible to make in such a short ammount of time? I currrently have Adobe CS (GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX. I have a decent knowledge of Photoshop, I've used InDesign and Dreamweaver (but not in the last 2 years) and minimal Flash knowledge.
Any info/comments would be very appreciated, even if it's "you're out of your mind" or "read the help files". I haven't looked at these since I just came up with the idea
It's 1:15 am and I have to get up at 4:30 for classes, so I won't be able to answer right away.
EDIT: added the food web
What I would like is to have my food web fill the screen, as I'm planning to do a presentation. The idea that I had is that when I press on one of the species, this one lights up and the line joining it with the other species in the food web lights up as well. The "lighting up" would be in the form of a small pulse that originates form the species I clicked and reaches the other species (in this case, the species that feed on the selected one). The predator species would also light up.
I would also like the option to press a button (or click/slide/whatever, as long as it's small) and have the same effect as above, only that this time the species I click on lights up, the species that feed on this light up and so on until the final species is reached (this is to demonstrate the effect of removing one species)
For example: If I click on the "Pelagic Crustaceans", it would light up, as would the 5 lines connecting it with the "Polar Cod", "Capelin/Cod", "Little Auk", "Brünnich's Guillemot" and the "Amphipods/Krill/Prawns". These last five species (or groups) would light up as well.
Now I click the "all levels" button described above. Now when I press on the "Pelagic Crustaceans", the four lines mentioned before light up, as well as the ones joining the 5 species/groups mentioned to the ones that predate on these.
One final thing: If I click on the species at the bottom, the lines would be of one color (blue, for example). If I click on a species of a higher level in the food web (the Polar cod, for instance) the pulse would be of a different color.
BTW, by default the pulses would only travel upwards in the food web (towards the predators), but if there could be a button to inverse that, it'd be excellent!
Is this possible to make in such a short ammount of time? I currrently have Adobe CS (GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX. I have a decent knowledge of Photoshop, I've used InDesign and Dreamweaver (but not in the last 2 years) and minimal Flash knowledge.
Any info/comments would be very appreciated, even if it's "you're out of your mind" or "read the help files". I haven't looked at these since I just came up with the idea
It's 1:15 am and I have to get up at 4:30 for classes, so I won't be able to answer right away.EDIT: added the food web
