# Calculating points along a curved path

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calculating-points-along-a-curved-path/302222
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**Created:** [December 23, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calculating-points-along-a-curved-path/302222 "2009-12-23T18:41:29Z")
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### Author: ![Pier25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@Pier25](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pier25)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calculating-points-along-a-curved-path/302222/1 "2009-12-23T18:41:29Z")

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Hey guys!

It’s been such a long time away from Kirupa! 🙂

I’m developing some kind of dynamic time line. I want a curved line to represent time and dynamically put points over the curve representing the years. Maybe even have a slider along that curved line.

I was thinking of creating the curve at runtime with bezier so that each time it would be different.

Adding the slider is easy… but I really don’t know where to start for putting movieclips along the curve dynamically.

Any ideas?

Thanks!