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# rotation animation block lesson
Learn how to create images with a global variable and while loop.
## Topic
While Loop
## Quick links
* [activity](/lessons/rotation-animation/activity)
* [challenges](/lessons/rotation-animation/challenges)
* [quiz](/lessons/rotation-animation/quiz)
* [quiz answers](/lessons/rotation-animation/quiz-answers)
## Prior learning/place of lesson in scheme of work
Learn how to create images that look like a rotating animation by using a while loop. We will be learning how to create a rotating animation using a global variable, while loop as well as simple commands, such as on button pressed and show animation.
## Documentation
```cards
while (true) {}
let x = 0
input.onButtonPressed(Button.A, () => {})
basic.showLeds(`
. . . . .
. . . . .
. . # . .
. . . . .
. . . . .
`)
basic.pause(100)
```
## Objectives
* learn how to create a variable for a place where you can store data, accessible across functions, and in nested code blocks
* learn how to set or change the value of a variable
* learn how to repeat code while a condition is true
* learn how to declare a boolean variable to determine which code will execute next
* learn how to run code when an input button is pressed
* learn how to show a series of image frames on the LED screen
* learn how to pause your code for the specified number of milliseconds