svg morphing without flipping

Question

I have been trying to find a simple and free way to make a morph between a bezier shape and its mirrored copy. Because they have the same number of points, I thought it will be an easy task. It wasn't. I tried KUTE and SVG morpheus. Kute was performing an unneeded vertical flip, and Morpheus an unnecessary horizontal one ( codepen here ). The only javascript library that did the trick was the paid MorphSVG plugin. ( codepen here ) It's a pity and I hope i can find a cheaper solution in the future. If anyone knows anything, please let me know.

 var svgMorpheus = new SVGMorpheus('#icon', {rotation: "none"});
 var icons = ['question', 'answer'];
 var current = 0;

Answer 1

A quick hack based on my old animation: http://jsfiddle.net/alkhoo/JwkYm/11/ - mouse over to activate animation.

Note: The greensock animation contains the paths value.

  $(function () { //Grab an array of all the main SVG Elements var containers = $(".category .item a"); //Define some vars that we will use later var speed = 1000; var animation = mina.backout; //Loop through all of these containers and insert the SVG's containers.each(function (index) { //Get each of our SVG tags var s = Snap(".animated-overlay.svg-" + index); //Define our Paths var defaultWhitePath = "M1.8978756799999998,64.59785067199999 C4.5919579200000005,94.29202528 74.7848272,99.01918832 128.25879712,95.43520928 361.0060832,78.08572735999999 468.2360832,8.157339040000004 562.54879712,6.478409280000005 646.3748272,4.004430240000005 663.93195792,95.19048896 664.08987568,93.45505007999999 664.24724128,114.2054704 664.1263182399999,144.17150224 664.1263182399999,166.67625712 443.1668704,166.67625712 222.2168704,166.67625712 1.26631824,166.67625712 1.26631824,165.36156416 -0.8027587199999999,36.217596 1.8898756799999998,64.59746416 z"; //Define our Hover Paths var hoverWhitePath = "M0.6989956799999999,94.82189867199999 C0.6932379199999996,94.83954528000001 15.029627200000007,-2.205931680000006 100.71287712,0.6387292800000068 186.5548832,3.4719673599999936 293.78488319999997,81.96869904 535.00287712,100.48192928 586.6196272000001,104.43659024 660.0332379199999,93.83112896 662.89099568,62.42577008 665.7387612800001,31.0390704 663.55047824,166.25166224 663.55047824,166.27033712000002 442.6004704,166.27033712000002 221.65047040000002,166.27033712000002 0.6904782399999999,166.27033712000002 0.6904782399999999,142.47900416000002 0.6887612800000001,118.58159599999999 0.6909956799999999,94.81490416 z"; //Load up the default paths in the SVG var whitePath = s.path(defaultWhitePath); whitePath.attr({ fill: "#00f" }); //Let's group our paths, it doesn't seem like you can animate the whole group though :( var paths = s.group(whitePath); //Animate on Mouse Enter $(containers[index]).mouseenter(function () { whitePath.animate({ path: hoverWhitePath }, speed, animation); }); //Animate on Mouse Leave, return the paths to the default $(containers[index]).mouseleave(function () { whitePath.animate({ path: defaultWhitePath }, speed, animation); }); }); }); 

 body { background: #ddd; } .item { max-height: 300px; background: #ddd; } 

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/snap.svg/0.4.1/snap.svg-min.js"></script> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class="category"> <div class="item" style="background-image: url('images/category.jpg');"> <a href="#" title="Category Title"> <svg viewbox="0, 0, 700, 300" preserveAspectRatio="none" class="animated-overlay svg-0"> </svg> </a> </div> </div>