#135 Random Character Change & Character Fade Out

[Anonymous]

This program is awesome.

However to improve it, I have two suggestions.

The First is that the program randomly replace "fade
color" charaters after the lead "foreground color"
character has passed. This behavior would act
somewhat like the "Randomized Cleanup" except that
instead of clearing out a character it would replace
it with another randomly chosen character. Also,
like "Randomized Cleanup" the abilty to change
settings such as toggle the behavior on and off,
change the densitiy (overall chance of a random
change,) the lead value (number of characters that
have to be drawn before a change can occur,) and
finally wether a character that has changed can
randomly change again.

The Second is that the behavior for character
deletions be changed/ammended. Wether by "Monotonous
Cleanup," "Randomized Cleanup," or my above
suggestion of "Random Character Change," whenever a
character is deleted, have the option to have it fade
out instead of just dissappearing. Since this
program uses several static shades/opacities for
drawing characters just have it cycle through ligher
and lighter shades/opacities before the character is
finally deleted. Suggested options for this would be
the ability set the amount of time in miliseconds it
takes the character to fade out, with a setting of 0
being an instant clear and 1000 being one full second
for the character to cycle to the next lighter
shade. With this bolder characters naturally clear
slower than lighter characters.

With both of these options I think that ZMatrix would
have a much cooler effect.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I actually watched the code from the movie several times and this is the actual behavior of the code.