Unionview homepage
This project was a site for Universities in the UK to advertise themselves to prospective students. Through the site a student can research universities further than just what courses they offer. They can watch bespoke videos on each university, in which real students give their opinions on the campus, facitilities, social life and the surrounds.
Not being much of a mathophile, the prospect of creating sine/cosine generated carousels fills me with dread. In fact, trig and matrices have always been the bane of my professional life and I usually try to avoid them. I’m more than happy banging out algorithms for scrollbars, dynamically resizing layouts and have even drawn the odd curve here and there, but I just never really got comfortable with angles. It’s not something that I absolutely cannot do – rather I prefer to leave to those who are either interested in it or good at it.. either way, the site looks better for it and the client gets a better result. 
In this case, I didn’t have that option, so I cranked the hack up to 11 and got trawling the net for carousel code! I think the end result was pretty cool – I even got in a startup animation that spins the carousel to stop evenly at a random university. In this case, the tricky part was in the fact that to keep processing down and to maintain a level of separation between the images in the carousel, I had to keep a fixed number of items on the carousel itself and, depending on the direction of rotation, swap out items as they passed through the rear-most point of the ellipse. This gave the impression that the carousel held many more items than were actually visible, whilst maintaining the overall shape and performance of the spin.
Unionview university video/info page
