Here is my program that runs on curves. I call it “laser ballerinas”. Move your mouse left to right to increase the size of the curves and the overall rotation, and move your mouse up and down to change the number of “lobes” on each curve. Click to change the colors of each lobe!
//Sam Rauch, section B, srauch@andrew.cmu.edu, project 07
//This code produces a "laser ballerinas" using epicycloid curves. Ten epicycloid curves of decreasing
//size and random colors are drawn on top of each other to produce "nested curves", and six nested curves
//are drawn in a hexagon pattern around the center of the canvas, which spins. MouseX controls the size of
//the curves and the rotation of the hexagon pattern, while mouseY controls the number of "lobes" produced
//in each epicycloid curve. Click to change the colors of the ballerinas!
var coloroptions;
function setup() {
createCanvas(400, 400);
background(220);
text("p5.js vers 0.9.0 test.", 10, 15);
coloroptions = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
coloroptions[i] = color(random(255), random(255), random(255));
}
}
function draw() {
background(0);
translate(width/2, height/2);
//create spin the hexagon of curves around the center of the canvas according to mouseX
push();
var spinamt = map(mouseX, 0, width, 0, 2*PI)
rotate(spinamt);
//draws six nested curves in a hexagon pattern
for (var i = 0; i < 6; i++){
push();
translate(100, 0);
nestedCurve();
pop();
rotate(radians(60));
}
pop();
}
//generates epicycloid curve (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Epicycloid.html) with center at 0,0
function drawCurve(color){
noFill();
stroke(color);
strokeCap(ROUND);
strokeJoin(ROUND);
strokeWeight(3);
var points = 80;
var xValues = [];
var yValues = [];
var a = mouseX/4; //radius of larger inner circle
var b = constrain(mouseY/10, 0, a) ; //40; //radius of smaller outer circle
var theta = 0;
//generating x and y values based on epicycloid curve forumla, and increasing the center angle
//by a small amount
for (var i = 0; i < points; i++) {
theta += radians(5);
xValues[i] = (a+b)*cos(theta) - b*cos(((a+b)/b)*theta);
yValues[i] = (a+b)*sin(theta) - b*sin(((a+b)/b)*theta);
}
//plotting x and y values
beginShape();
for (var i = 0; i <points; i++) {
vertex(xValues[i], yValues[i]);
}
endShape();
}
//draws ten epicycloid curves of random colors nested inside each other
function nestedCurve() {
push();
var size = 1;
var sizeIncrement = 0.1;
//draws ten epicycloid curves, but for each one, decreases scale and change color
for (var i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
scale(size);
var col = coloroptions[i];
drawCurve(col);
size -= sizeIncrement;
}
pop();
}
function mousePressed(){
for (var i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
coloroptions[i] = color(random(255), random(255), random(255));
}
}