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Reminds me of making my TI-83 draw a bunch of patterns in high school with TI-BASIC. It had functions to lines, circles, and some others. Some pretty interestin
by jimmaswell 10y ago
Reminds me of making my TI-83 draw a bunch of patterns in high school with TI-BASIC. It had functions to lines, circles, and some others. Some pretty interesting shapes emerged from just trying out various combinations of LINE TAN(X),SIN(X),COS(X),ABS(X) and such, with X being a variable that I'd make the main loop increment between 0 and 359, or sometimes multiple variables, or it being incremented differently than linearly. I wish I'd have cataloged them.
- beachbum8029 10y agoYou should have, then you could have made a self congratulatory blog post about it and posted it to hacker news!
- cableshaft 10y agoI played around with my graphing calculator in the same way, just trying out different equations to see what they looked like, and even made some simple games out of them. I kind of miss that, because I had a much better idea of what different functions looked like on a graph than I do now, when I could actually use them for animations in games (I mostly just use sines and cosines for oscillating animations and log functions for easing).