22 May 2009
Spring mechanism
Filed under Sketch
A fairly simple idea I had sometime ago. I wanted to simulate mechanisms, robots and odd contraptions.
I made this little applet, and challenged most people I know to build a contraption which leaves the screen area. Any results were hard to replicate, but I challange anybody willing to give it a try.
How to use it:
P - pause / play
[space] - toggle gravity
[left click] - adds ball
[right click] - adds fixed ball
s - change connector type
+/- - change timer
1/2/3 - change ball friction
click on 2 balls to connect them
The 3 text boxes change
delay to piston activation
the growth /shrink percentages
piston starting direction +/-1
speed factor
Also I’d like to thankJeffrey Traer Bernstein for making the physics library and Brendan Berg for making the interfascia GUI library for Processing.
2009-05-22 :: Andrew