Last Program

Bockit

Sydney2287 Posts

May 27 2007 12:47 GMT

Second year and we start programming. Some love it, some hate it but the results so far have been pretty cool. Not being a computer science course and having the most amazing lecturer ever, the focus is on interesting results and design as opposed to what I will term as 'boring shit'.

With that in mind, my last assignment was a problem, it was too addictive. An example of what it looked like:

Link to the applet here

Instructions:

Left Click: Attract all particles towards the cursor.

Left Click + Shift: Attract particles that are near the cursor to the cursor.

Right Click: Create a node at the cursor.

Right Click + Drag: Attract the primary node to the cursor.

Right Click + Shift: Create a secondary node at the cursor.

Middle Mouse Button: Deactivate all nodes.

Middle Mouse Button + Shift: Deactivate whatever node the mouse cursor over.

Have fun, it's addictive.

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

May 27 2007 13:20 GMT

that's really really fucking cool

i figured out a clicking sequence to get all of the particles orbiting my cursor perfectly, in a circle that stayed at a constant line thickness

then i held the mouse button down and the circle pulsed bigger and smaller

i dunno why this is so fucking cool to me but i actually smiled really big when i let go of the mouse after holding it and the particles flew out in a perfect pattern

Bockit

Sydney2287 Posts

May 27 2007 13:42 GMT

thanks

Yeah.. there's something about that specific 'action' that looks really cool. Try doing it again, but right after releasing, press right click once and just watch.