jQuery animating along a sine wave

Question

I\'ve spent a couple days at this and I give up.

I\'m trying to get an object to animate along a sine wave infinitely. It should not end after the first period.

Answer 1

Here's a solution (demonstrated in this fiddle) to making a Sinusoidal Wave just by using Jquery's four .animate parameters:

    $("div").animate({ left: [ '+=8%', 'linear' ],  
                       top:  [ '+=5%' , 'swing'  ]  }, 1000, null, function() {
        $(this).animate({ left: [ '+=8%', 'linear' ],  
                          top:  [ '-=5%' , 'swing'  ]  }, 1000, null, function() {
            $(this).animate({ left: [ '+=8%', 'linear' ],  
                                  top:  [ '+=5%' , 'swing'  ]  }, 1000, null, function() {
                $(this).animate({ left: [ '+=8%', 'linear' ],  
                                      top:  [ '-=5%' , 'swing'  ]  }, 1000, null, function() {

                        //(etc.)
                })                                                                                  

            })
        })
    })