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reduceInstructions()

Part of the @remotion/paths package. Available from v3.3.40

Takes an array of Instruction's and reduces the amount of instruction types them so the path only consists of M, L, C and Z instructions.

note

In versions before v4.0.168, Q instructions were reduced away.

In reverse logic, this function will eliminate all H, V, S, T, A, Q m, l, h, v, c, s, q, t, a, q and z instructions.

This is useful if you want to manually edit a path and want to make sure it's as simple as possible.

Note that this may result in a longer path.

ts
import { reduceInstructions, ReducedInstruction } from "@remotion/paths";
 
const simplified: ReducedInstruction[] = reduceInstructions([
  { type: "m", dx: 10, dy: 10 },
  { type: "h", dx: 100 },
]);
 
/*
  [
    {type: 'M', x: 10, y: 10},
    {type: 'L', x: 110, y: 10},
  ]
*/
ts
import { reduceInstructions, ReducedInstruction } from "@remotion/paths";
 
const simplified: ReducedInstruction[] = reduceInstructions([
  { type: "m", dx: 10, dy: 10 },
  { type: "h", dx: 100 },
]);
 
/*
  [
    {type: 'M', x: 10, y: 10},
    {type: 'L', x: 110, y: 10},
  ]
*/

ReducedInstruction type​

If you want a type which includes only reduced instructions, you can import the ReducedInstruction type.

ts
import { ReducedInstruction } from "@remotion/paths";
ts
import { ReducedInstruction } from "@remotion/paths";

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