Examples of using trigonometric functions for animation
Justin Windle, a Google Creative Lab programmer and designer, posted an interesting demo on Codepen.io showing examples of using trigonometric functions to set the animation dynamics (easing), which looks natural and believable. The demo is written using the lightweight Sketch.js animation framework written by Windle.
On the website of Justin Windle , you can find a few interesting and useful examples of creative visualization, such as animated menus of CSS3 Makisu , demonstration of his library Coffee Physics and much more.