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Egg, your use of brushes for us with XDP is a perfect complement to the method.
Thank you for uncovering it.

Acorn

To alter the code to autorun (and remove the button trigger), use:

<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[$(document).ready(function(){


$('.animate').hide();

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Egg, I am honoured for your creation of my own animated Avatar.

I'll come to you for advice in future.

Acorn

Manually. I chose line segments but it could have been circles, squares, boxes or donkeys.
I just dropped my shape onto the line and turned it to fit, which is why it is a bit rough.

I wasn't...

Here's a way that uses Xara's vectors objects (of any shape or form): 104645
I only set a low number of line elements to check how well it can be tuned.
The pop-up text is part of the animation.
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