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	default clay colorstatic disintegrate drift erosion lens particle pull pulse trails transparent
SoftType	Description	It's Alive!	TextOrgan	Menu Image
default	standard true type outline	X	equal to "smooth"
clay	glyphs become malleable to the mouse movement mouse strength the strength of the mouse pulling on the glyph range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 mouse falloff the range at which the mouse will begin exerting a pull on the glyph range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 origin strength the strength with which the glyph will be pulled back towards its original position and shape range: -1e+006 to 1e+006	X
colorstatic	fills the glyph with pulses of static radius the radius of the static pulse centered on the mouse range: 0 to 1e+006 sine wave oscillation determines the speed and spacing of the pulses range: 0 to 1e+006	X	X
disintegrate	target text pixelates into the background in response to mouse movements mouseOver range: -1.0 to 1.0 mouseOutside range: -1.0 to 1.0	X	X
drift	text deforms in response to any mouse movement, whether the button is down or not mouse strength the strength or amount of pull the mouse has range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 mouse falloff the distance at which the mouse will stop exerting its strength range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 origin strength the amount of pull the origina exerts range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 friction determines the speed and spacing of the pulses range: 0.0 and 1.0	X	X
erosion	target text pixelates into the background wherever it encounters another text object mouseOver range: -1.0 to 1.0 mouseOutside range: -1.0 to 1.0	X	X
lens	target text magnifies in response to the mouse location magnification the amount by which the text will be magnified range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 falloff the radius of the magnification range: -1e+006 to 1e+006	X	X
particle	glyph outlines are filled with tiny particles	X	X (this is not a softtype behavior in TextOrgan; see behaviors)
pull	the pixels of the glyph are pulled toward the mouse mouse strength the strength or amount of pull the mouse has range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 mouse falloff the distance at which the mouse will stop exerting its strength range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 origin strength the amount of pull the origina exerts range: -1e+006 to 1e+006	X	X
pulse	glyphs increase and decrease size rhythmically and deform with interaction with the mouse scale the amount by which the glyph increases/decreases its size range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 period the cycle of the scaling range: -1e+006 to 1e+006 distortion factor the degree to which the glyph outline is distorted by interaction with the mouse range: -1e+006 to 1e+006	X	X
trails	fills the glyph with bands of color radius the radius of the pulse centered on the mouse range: 0 to 1e+006 sine wave oscillation determines the speed and spacing of the pulses range: 0 to 1e+006	X
transparent	makes the glyph transparent to the specified degree (note: this is a performance hog.) transparency amount of transparency range: 0 to 1.0 mouseOver range: -1.0 to 1.0 mouseOutside range: -1.0 to 1.0	X