Frieze Designing Challenge

**Acorn** · 31 March 2020, 03:55 PM

No winners other than the praise of other TGers for this one and no solution either so you are on your own.

Get set.

Go!

Using the Timeline 01 SmartShape, which Imports as three Blobs, transform it into something more visual while keeping its original functionality.
I should be able to increase the number of Blobs, release and return back to the number presented and the same frieze pattern would persist.

Here are my suggestions:

Xara Timeline 01 - Frieze Challenge.xar.
Note: the slow loading of the file into your Xara Desktop application (XDA) is down to the heavy coding Xara has had to use with its SmartShapes. The file is only 120kB.

You will also get plaudits in describing your approach as a viable workflow.

Acorn

**gwpriester** · 31 March 2020, 05:23 PM

Sorry for the delay. Challenge new topics are in moderation until... moderated.

**handrawn** · 31 March 2020, 05:40 PM

sorry, I only do animation timelines, I don't even know what these are supposed to do...

**Acorn** · 31 March 2020, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

sorry, I only do animation timelines, I don't even know what these are supposed to do...

Then open the file and have a play. Double click any of the examples. The SmartShape controls are limited but that's Xara for you.

I have yet to find a purpose for these, which is why I challenged a frieze.

Acorn

**handrawn** · 31 March 2020, 07:36 PM

The SmartShape controls are limited but that's Xara for you

that is an understatement...

from their title I guess they are for using when you want to delineate a sequence of events graphically

well each to their own.....