Comments on: Homegrown Tentacles http://www.rickigregersen.com/2009/08/06/homegrown-tentacles/ whatever I am currently programming... and I truly digress Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.rickigregersen.com/2009/08/06/homegrown-tentacles/comment-page-1/#comment-178 admin Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:36:07 +0000 http://www.rickigregersen.com/?p=173#comment-178 Hey Lawrie I like that you stop them before they leave the periphery of the circle, looks cool. I just did some tests on what the drawing API can do in terms of speed and it seems possible to keep 10 tentacles of a 100 circles going continuously with the growing effect (drawing 10 * 100 circles each frame). So tomorrow I'll try writing up a class that produces a 100 points, draws a small circle, the tip, and then redraws the whole thing each frame with a slightly larger radius for each circle. i.e. so it really looks like they grow. I don't know how Justin did that, but maybe he'll tells us afterwards:) Cool blog you have:) and I also left my job last week ;) best of luck to you on your journey! I do like tentacles now:) Ricki Hey Lawrie
I like that you stop them before they leave the periphery of the circle, looks cool.
I just did some tests on what the drawing API can do in terms of speed and it seems possible to keep 10 tentacles of a 100 circles going continuously with the growing effect (drawing 10 * 100 circles each frame). So tomorrow I’ll try writing up a class that produces a 100 points, draws a small circle, the tip, and then redraws the whole thing each frame with a slightly larger radius for each circle. i.e. so it really looks like they grow. I don’t know how Justin did that, but maybe he’ll tells us afterwards:)
Cool blog you have:) and I also left my job last week ;) best of luck to you on your journey!

I do like tentacles now:)

Ricki

]]> By: Lawrie http://www.rickigregersen.com/2009/08/06/homegrown-tentacles/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Lawrie Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:46:06 +0000 http://www.rickigregersen.com/?p=173#comment-177 Hey man, I wouldn't say they came out wrong....just different. I really like them, it's a different effect to Justins, but the bitmap drawing looks really good. I did some pretty similar tentacle stuff a few weeks ago, and put the code up on Wondefl if you fancy comparing. http://wonderfl.net/code/625bb79ac140703a17b58757e8b9035140590174# Lawrie. Hey man,
I wouldn’t say they came out wrong….just different. I really like them, it’s a different effect to Justins, but the bitmap drawing looks really good.
I did some pretty similar tentacle stuff a few weeks ago, and put the code up on Wondefl if you fancy comparing.

http://wonderfl.net/code/625bb79ac140703a17b58757e8b9035140590174#

Lawrie.

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