Added linear easing to animations.

[Soares]

Very useful when you want to create e.g. a continuous rotating graph. Now you can do:

var n = 0; var duration = 1000; var spin = function() { mathbox.animate('surface', { worldRotation: [0, 0, n++ * τ] }, { duration: duration, ease: 'linear' }); setTimeout(spin, duration); }; spin();

For a continuous spin. I'd still like to see better support for this, but full support would require allowing properties (such as worldRotation above) to be functions that return the new result instead of being values.

[unconed]

I do plan to rearchitect mathbox so that expressions can be used everywhere, it is indeed the only logical outcome. This is a bit tricky to do though, because expressions should be able to return individual values rather than being expected to return an entire data array.

In your case though, you could easily just queue up an unreasonably long animation (e.g. 10 minutes) rather than repeating a short one over and over again.

For continuous animations, I do find it handier to use director.clock() on live expressions.

In the meantime, there's no harm in having linear easing though, so I'm happy to include it.