Behaviour change in the "Snowflake" animation

[sjn]

Hei!

In the "old" app, the "Snowflake" animation had a really neat behavior which seems to have been removed in the new version. This is easiest to see by setting the animation speed to max, and doing the following steps:

1. Add enough text so that it "overflows" (meaning it requires more than one display cycle to show it all
2. Make sure that the text contains at least a few spaces at the "right side" of the first screen, so that there are no characters that are rendered partly.
3. Enable "snowflake"

e.g. input

test- test

With the old app, the text would render like this (one "screenful" per line)

testX
test

With the new app, it renders like this:

testX
 test

In the old app, this would create the illusion that the letter X was "blinking", since the second rendering always made sure the content started a the leftmost pixel of the screen.

In the new app, the content isn't moved to the left any more, so the illusion breaks - the whole text bounces left and right, instead of just one character appearing and disappearing.

I hope this makes sense....

Could we get the old behavior back? 😁

[sjn]

does this make any sense?

[sjn]

MOV_0207.2.mp4

(this is how it looks when using the old app)