Showing posts with label 3D. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3D. Show all posts

May 16, 2013

Jelly Ball

Jelly Ball

A month or two after I wrote the Stretchy Ball program, I tried making the ball slightly transparent. The result: a clear jelly effect. I thought it looked cool, so I saved it as a separate program and named it "Lens Ball".

Soon another user on Khan Academy suggested making the ball jiggle whenever it was clicked. That sounded good, but I thought it would be more realistic if it jiggled no matter WHAT you did. I modified the program accordingly, and once I set it up to slide down the screen, the effect was complete. Here it is - just click and stretch:

March 20, 2013

Curvy Lines


I wanted to write a program for a stretchy disk, but I made it too fancy and ended up with this. To use the program, click the mouse on the lines. Keeping the mouse pressed, move the mouse.

To create more lines, press the UP arrow. To get rid of lines, press the DOWN arrow.