The code for all the animations are in XML files. Every call has a HTML file with the definition, and a corresponding XML file with the animations.
Here is the XML code for the first animation. An introduction to XML is on the previous page. For more details, look at the Wikipedia article.
<tam title="Forward" formation="Couples Facing Out" group=" ">
<path>
<move select="Forward"/>
</path>
<path>
<move select="Forward"/>
</path>
</tam>
The entire animation is contained in one <tam> element.
The <tam> element contains two <path>
elements. Each <path> element contains one
<move> element.
Each move element has an attribute named select. The value of the
attribute is Forward.
Each dancer has a
<path> element. But because Taminations only does
symmetrical formations, just 2 paths are needed for 4 dancers - each dancer
and its diagonal opposite always have the same path.
A <move> element is a named, pre-defined curve.
The name is given by the select attribute, and describes what the move does.
Most moves change the dancer position
by an integral number of grid positions, often in combination with a rotation of
90 or 180 degrees. Here are the moves used in these animations.