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SVG path animation

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Last edited Dec 28, 2013

Created on Dec 28, 2013

A red dot animates along a black, wiggly SVG path, looping infinitely. The path is defined in an external SVG file. Built with D3.js v3, the visualization loads the SVG via `d3.xml`, extracts the path with a `d3.select`, and uses a `transition.attrTween` to move a circle marker based on `getPointAtLength` and `getTotalLength`, replicating Mike Bostock’s point-along-path interpolation example.

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Marker animation along SVG "path" element with D3.js Based on Mike's example: Point-Along-Path Interpolation.

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