Post by gtoal on Nov 11, 2023 4:23:38 GMT -5
I was messing about with an experiment sort of inspired by the Spirograph (adding two circular motions together) and came up with this...
Although it sort of works as-is as a simple screen-saver, I was wondering if the motion path might be useful for some sort of game. It's semi-regular yet semi-chaotic - a little but not 100% predictable - can anyone think of a good game mechanic that could take advantage of that kind of movement? (The parameter array is pretty much arbitrarily chosen and tweaking the numbers would give quite different paths) Slowly changing some of the parameters over time could make it even more unpredictable.
G
#include <vectrex.h>
int main(void) {
long int x,y, sin1,cos1, sin2,cos2;
long p[10] = {8,8,4,4,2,3,2,3,4,2};
#define MAXSPEED 3
int speed = 0;
sin1 = -96L; cos1 = 1L; sin2 = 1L; cos2 = -96L;
while (1) {
Wait_Recal();Intensity_7F();
speed+=1;
sin2 = sin2 - (cos2/p[0]); cos2 = cos2 + (sin2/p[1]);
if (speed == MAXSPEED) {
sin1 = sin1 - (cos1/p[2]); cos1 = cos1 + (sin1/p[3]);
speed=0;
}
x = (sin1/p[4])+(sin2/p[5])*p[6]; y = (cos1/p[7])-(cos2/p[8])*p[9];
x = (int)((long)x * 15L / 16L);y = (int)((long)y * 23L / 16L);
Reset0Ref(); Print_Str_d((int)y, (int)x, "g \x80");
}
return 0;
}Although it sort of works as-is as a simple screen-saver, I was wondering if the motion path might be useful for some sort of game. It's semi-regular yet semi-chaotic - a little but not 100% predictable - can anyone think of a good game mechanic that could take advantage of that kind of movement? (The parameter array is pretty much arbitrarily chosen and tweaking the numbers would give quite different paths) Slowly changing some of the parameters over time could make it even more unpredictable.
G
