# Creating a seismograph

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-seismograph/34792>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 6, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-seismograph/34792 "2003-11-06T14:35:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![hammml8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@hammml8](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hammml8)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-seismograph/34792/1 "2003-11-06T14:35:29Z")

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Is it possible to write code that would create an animation that reasonably mimics the effect of a seismograph reading an earthquake? I’m not an advanced actionscript user so I have no idea how I might go about this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-seismograph/34792/2 "2003-11-06T14:50:03Z")

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I would suggest the drawing API. Right now I don’t have enough time to write something though…