Thursday, 2 August 2012

Coding (using 2 different codes!)

Tuesday Tutorial:

After finding that it was taking me a lot longer than it should of been just to change the position of one of my triangles or try to increase the size etc I realized that I had written my code using variable but in a way that meant I was still having to plot in all the individual numbers for each line of each triangle rather than having a few variables that control everything.

To fix this, i re-wrote (with help) a new code that uses the center point of the canvas as the center point for all the movement and sizing of shapes which makes it a lot easier to manipulate the variables which opens up a whole new range of sequences that a quick to create.
The only issue with the new code over my old one is that I am at a stage where I can only more the shapes in a symmetrical way (i.e cannot rotate the angle), this means that I can use my old code for any sequences I want to try that don't use symmetry and use the new quicker code for the rest of my form developments.




The screen shots above just show briefly the difference in the amount in variables in the 2 codes, the first being my new code with proper use of variables, the 2nd being my old code with far far far to many variables!!

This is something i need to improve on working with in the future.

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