Ann: Simple Spirograph-like toy program.

[Alex Tweedly]

Geoff Canyon wrote:

> On Jun 18, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
>> In Revonline, under alextweedly (or under category Games), called  
>> Spirograph
>>
>> Very simple, but quite fun (and totally dependent on accurate  slider 
>> values :-)
>

> Alex, I made a few changes to the script that I liked, so here they  
> are. This adds a display of the number of points in the graphic,  
> useful for scaring myself about making rev crash ;-) It also changes  
> the frequency of updates to the graphic, making it time-dependent so  
> that the field/graphic aren't updated needlessly -- instead it  
> refreshes about 20-30 times per second, which retains the nice smooth  
> feel of the original, while working much faster, especially at the  
> end as the point count piles up.
>
Very nice change, thank you.

I do have one question though - you changed the
  wait 1 millisecond with messages
to
  wait 3 millisecond with messages

Is that a significant change ?
It goes faster with 1 ms wait, so I was curious if there's a need to 
change it, or if you simply preferred the look of it "drawing" like 
you'd get with a real Spirograph rather than the lines just "appearing" 
quickly.


I put these changes into the Spirograph stack, made a corresponding 
change to Harmonograph, and updated the RevOnline Version of both.   
RevOnline / alextweedly / Spirograph   and   Harmonograph


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