Currently I have a element on the page. I would like that object to oscillate left and right similar to the one in the example give below. However, I would like to bind the oscillation with the browser window scroll event.
https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/simple-harmonic-motion/4920589909229568
I tried this but it's not smooth and accurate:
Javascript
let butterfly_y_position_log = [];
let scroll_times = 0;
let scroll_direction;
$(window).scroll(function(){
let butterfly_y_position = $('.floating-butterfly').offset().top;
let butterfly_x_position;
butterfly_y_position_log.push(butterfly_y_position);
if (butterfly_y_position_log.length > 2){
butterfly_y_position_log = butterfly_y_position_log.slice(1, 4);
}
if (butterfly_y_position_log[0] < butterfly_y_position_log[1] || butterfly_y_position_log[1] == undefined){
scroll_direction = 'down';
scroll_times++;
butterfly_x_position = ($(window).width() / 2) + (100 * Math.sin(2* Math.PI + scroll_times));
} else {
scroll_direction = 'up';
scroll_times--;
butterfly_x_position = ($(window).width() / 2) + (100 * Math.cos(2* Math.PI + scroll_times));
}
console.log(scroll_times);
console.log(butterfly_x_position);
$('.floating-butterfly').css({left:butterfly_x_position});
});
HTML
<img src="..." class="floating-butterfly">
CSS
.floating-butterfly {
position: fixed;
top: 40px;
z-index: 2;
}
The Y-position will remain fixed, only X-position will change on scroll.