Scan — DIA Tools

Text becomes a moving stack of slices.

Scan is a browser-based kinetic typography tool in the DIA Tools collection, hosted on Daniel Wenzel’s website. It divides large letterforms into animated slices, producing a shifting black-and-white image from editable text. Controls expose horizontal or vertical direction, speed, rotation, slice count, intensity and easing. A repeater section extends the experiment into a grid with separate horizontal and vertical repetition and options for random direction and timing. The interface places the output beside a compact control panel, so changes can be assessed directly as the typography moves. The live sketch uses Rand Medium and presents the tool as an interactive experiment.

Set in Rand Medium

Insights

Horizontal and vertical scanning are selectable modes, so direction changes the same underlying lettering without changing its content.
Slice count, intensity and easing expose separate controls over the distortion; the effect can be explored through parameter changes.
The repeater extends a single word into a grid, with controls for random direction and timing.