UPDATE: Sickster made me a GUI! YAY!!! Now it looks cool.
INSTRUCTIONS:
firstly, there IS a back button, it's called the <Space Bar> - that big long bar on your keyboard. I didn't want to clutter the flash up with buttons so I made the <Space Bar> do it.
Input values to change the spiral. I'll quickly explain what all the value do:
Center Point (x,y) - determines WHERE the spiral is spawned. It does not affect the generated spiral.
Starting Values - determines what values r and a start at. The starting value for 'a' can only be between 0 and 360 (as it's an angle) and doesn't actually affect much, merely the starting orientation of the spiral. The starting value for r determines how big of a hole there will be in the middle.
Curve - determines how much of a curve the spiral has. 0 = straight line. Positive numbers give a counterclockwise spiral, Negative numbers a clockwise one.
Speed - how many pixels gets drawn every itineration
Size - determines the max radius for the spiral (300 gets you to the borders of the screen, ~500 will fill even the corners)
Precision - how detailed every curve is. Mesured in distance between pixels.
Colours - determine the RGB values for the different gradient marks
Colour Length - how many pixels it takes to go from one colour to the next
Colours Used - how many of the 6 colours will be used (only up to 6)
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the actual formula now, for those interested, is as follows (note:this isn't AS code):
r= r+Precision
a=a+(Curve*Precision)
draw at: (r*sin(a),r*cos(a))
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HINTS:
-The length of the curve will be [(Size-StartingR)/Precisi on] pixels long. You should keep this in mind when determining the RGB values and Speed.
-If the Speed is equal to the length of the curve, it will spawn a single branch every itineration.
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My first submission to Newgrounds!
I can't draw, I can't animate, I can't do anything really... but I'm good at math! And some other stuff that isn't flash related...
So this is a way to make math both useful and fun! Make cool spiral patterns to grasp your attention for hours and share them with others.
If you find a nice pattern please post it below. If I also think it's nice then I'll add it to the list of presets.
EDIT: I found someone to make me a UI! Don't know how long it'll take 'im, but hang tight!
Also, nobody found any cool formulae?
EDIT2: I updated the save/load methods to make it easier.
Other Formulae:
"Explosion"
5000 x200 x300 x300 x700000 x6 x1 x0 x1 x0.1111 x0 x0 x0 x100 x50 x50 x255 x170 x100 x255 x255 x255 x200 x200 x200 x150 x150 x150
"Heat Rising"
60000 x600 x300 x-200 x255 x6 x1 x200 x0.012 x25.01 x0 x0 x0 x150 x0 x0 x255 x150 x0 x255 x255 x255 x255 x150 x0 x150 x0 x0
