3D bouncy ball[1]

Description

A ball bouncing in a room. This new version should be easier to work out and also to make remixes from. One loop does all the display, and another one does the position in 3D - bouncing, falling etc. To remix, try duplicating the ball, and you'll get a second ball in no time. Change its starting coordinates and speed. The old notes are here: To understand this, download it first (!). The ball has 3 co-ordinates in the room: x, y, z positions (z is depth away from you). First, we decide on the proportions of the space where we are working. I wanted the ball to be half the size when it's at the far end, so z is transformed following this formula: zfactor = 1+(z/400) This way, if - z=0, zfactor = 1 (max size) - z=400, zfactor = 2 (furthest away, min size) Now to place the ball we do: screen x = x/zfactor screen y = y/zfactor size % = 100/zfactor Simple, innit? It's called one-point perspective. To get the ball to move, we use speed co-ordinates, like a ball in 2D, only there are 3 speeds, for the 3 axes. I added a co-ordinate to the "gravity ball" example provided with the samples. Enjoy scratching!