Drawing a Circle (with Processing)
See that, above? That’s something I’ve wanted to do for years.
If you understand Processing, the programming language that pretty much foremost amongst the art/coding subset, you usually have a pretty good grasp of mathematics. Personally, despite my grade B at GCSE, I’m pretty shakey. That’s why it took me at least two years to be able to draw a bunch of dots in a circle, using Processing.
I am happy I’ve done it though; it means that I’m no longer banging my head against it as a problem that is beyond me. One more thing I can cross of my list of things that I want to do with Processing.
I’ve written in more depth about the mathematics behind the program, and posted a video of it in action, at my vimeo page. If you’d like to find out about what it’s about, read that. I’ve also uploaded the source code and the program itself as a stand-alone application for Windows, OS X and Linux, and you can download that below.
draw_a_circle2 (source files and apps)
UPDATE: The Vimeo page seems to have completely failed me (again) and so I’ve put a version up on Flickr using their new video function. If it doesn’t embed in the RSS feed, check out my photo page over there.
