O.K. So basically this is a series of balls spaced evenly, and set to orbit around a fixed point on the stage. However the rpm varies according to the ball. As the balls get closer to center, their rpm increase.
I’m not sure if this has been done before, but It came to me in the shower when I was thinking about elipses and the concentric circle illusion that makes it look as though there is a spiral. I figured out how to control the max amount of tails you can have on the screen. Each balls speed is the same when you start out, however I increased them using a fractal to change their rpm. Ball 10 had a speed of 4, then nine had a speed of 4.2, then eight had a speed of 4.4 etc…
I went up in intervals of .2, but why you ask? Because I only wanted a maximum of five tails. .2 is the equivilant to 1/5. You can control the amount of tails you want by putting the number of desired tails under 1, and then adding that to each succesive ball inward on their rpm. Got it? Anyways, check it out. Nothing fancy right now, just the balls baby.
http://www.austastic.com/files/funstuf.swf
And only 1 kb!
