Antispin simulator

Hi Guys.

I got bored yesterday afternoon, and I was looking at circular motion with ActionScript, so I knocked up a poi simulator that interactively allows you to adjust hand and poi rotation around the hand.

Download poi sim

right click and choose save as - I find the flash player has a much higher frame rate than when the movie is displayed in the window.

I'll probly add another poi and arm, and also strings, and a couple of different trace modes at some stage when I get bored again

patterns you should be familiar with

arm 1 poi 4 - standard flower
arm 1 poi - 3 - antispin flower


if you want to see longer trails just multiply both figures by 2 - eg

arm 2 poi 8 - standard flower double speed double trail length.

josh

nice going joshy

arms and poi on 120 makes some interesting results though

LOL

never tried it that fast!

if you can make your arms go that fast I'm sure they would superposition too!

Josh

wooo Arm:1 Poi:89

next version will have a toggle for persistant trails!

ok loving the high numbers!

single staff antispin = Arm:1 Poi: 179

antispin fire hula hoop Arm 1 Poi: 299

120
118

produces some nice results

I like, has do do something with division of 8 ?

smiling,

:R

Amazing, I know that there use to be an old poi model that you use to be able to play around with, but this is alot better. Thank you for putting this up so we can now all see just how much fun it would be if we could spin like a computer, doing all the moves that we can only dream of.

nice ones guys! beautiful pattern that 120/118

nice going josh.. i look forward to seeing you do that soon.. can you have it down by CG?

just updated the sim.

new features;

- its now got a reset button so you can program it and then have it run the pattern from the bottom (as fire spinners tend to).

-a persist mode, so that you can see the trail stay on the stage - rather than being removed.

-A toggle switch to make the hand visible or not.

next version will have two(!) poi

Josh

With this persist thing you can get some very nice patterns, proper spiragraph stuff!

295 and 300 ^^

according to your persistance setting... the poi will strobe when going extremely fast

well they would if your eye had a frame rate!

Josh

hmmm... thats a very good point

I now see dots

hehehehe... i should point out.. i am also appreciating this as the simulator it was designed to be.. not just crewing around

thanks josh

and... on saying that.. arms 1 poi 61 creates a series of concentric circles

I'm trying to figure out how arm 1, poi 59 will look in real life :P