Antispin simulator

I just made this: http://www.homeofpoi.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/833262/Main/833237#Post833262

only to find i'd been outdone. Although I've noticed you can't change the ratio of arm/poi on the animation, and from playing around with my spreadsheet i found that doing this makes some very nice patterns, especially if you have different lengths for each arm and each poi. Is there anyway you could add that to your next version?

oh and is that made in flash? is it easy to? I'd like to know how to make animations so i could make them for other moves. Especially flowers where you're arms change direction, cos they always look really nice

if you put poi on 300, then arms on any multiple of 10 they appear to stop, then going +or- 1 or 2 from there gives nice patterns, especially the ones near some of the multiples of 30

I can pretty easily add a second poi and arm, and I'm thinking of making the shoulder draggable in position so you can place them one on top of the other or side by side, or any other kind of crazy situation!

Also I definitely can add variable poi radius to simulate inside / inverted planes.

It'd be nice to be able to have a programmable sweep function on the poi radius too to make even spirals and smooth transition from long to short...hmmm... possible. but I'm back at Uni now so I'll see how much time I get to do some of the more tricky stuff!

hmmm programmable sweep would be wicked on all of the functions - that would allow simulation of 1.5s and other crazy ass pendula action...

Id also like to add move recognition and naming - ie you put in -1 4 and the name 'anti-spin flower' pops up.

Flash programming is similar to java programming - cept you can shortcut much of the graphics stuff by using Flash's drawing tools and built in objects. However (at least in Mx2004) you sacrifice a lot of the OOP strong structure you get in java. ie flash mx2004 can sometimes just do whacky stuff - that a proper programming language simply shouldn't do.

The whole animation you are seeing is done in code - not tweened or anything like that.

hmm.

Perhaps I could build a file system interface that would load a PoiXML file containing timing, radius, sequence, sweep and speed information that would allow you to run a series of moves in sequence.

I guess then I'd need to write an XSDL...

then I could set up a webservice that you could upload your PoiXML docs to and we could then rate each others routines!

damn geekery.



POIXML.

Wow nice work Josh.

Geeza- 120 118 is trippy!

hmm. I'm currently hypnotising myself at 150 150, and increasing each one by 1 each time. Discovered that that when the numbers are the same, the pattern becomes somewhat 'solid' and if you increase and decrease, for e.g. do 150 150, then 150 151, then 150 150 again, the pattern changes.. yay for little discoveries Bet it was really obvious to everyone else though

ps. Is there a way to manually enter numbers? 229 587 is tripping me out, but it took a lot of clicks to get there! (I'm obviously not using this as a poi tool.. )

229 120 is nice

as is 229 133

229 228 is awesome but upon reaching rys afforementions 229587, they appear similar, but 229228 is slower

There was one which was pretty trippy and started to look very random, but I lost it and couldn't figure out what it was. It looked like a party where people were walking around to strangers, stopping to say hello, then walking off to meet other people..

sims poi

mmm entering numbers manually would be useful I never thought people would go for such high numbers! - next revision!

Josh

Found a bunch of interesting ones but just threw all of them out- I found mandelbrot! omg!! heehe

-26, 501 then turn on persist and turn off hand.

Like ! Makes me happy !

In just tracing steps to duplicate him, found -26, 347 (then turn on persist and turn off hand). A bit simpler than 501, but same dude.

Josh- sorry to artify your otherwise very functional utility

lol - you have more patience than me for clicking up to 501!

Josh

It's worth it!

(-26, 501 then turn on persist and turn off hand.)

Of course, if you put in a manual entry thingo, patience would be a nonissue..

295:165

295:294

It is not an animated simulator ... but if you want to draw all kind of patterns for Poïs ... you will find the link to download the spreadsheet in that post : "Trochoïd Engine for Poï : A pattern plotter"
Enjoy !