Dial Animation

Still messing around with Spirograph...

What if I had multiple generations of dial drawing patterns? Well in that case, I cannot rely on math functions for Spirographing. Basically I have to employ recursion function in VB, which confused a good chunk of my brain. Drawing diagrams and breaking code into a little tasks definitely helps and here is what I came up with.























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(left) Dials rotate along each parent's perimeter by an user defined angle. (right) User defines a dbl revolution for the first dial. The following dials rotate according to the arc length.

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dblRev = 1 for 360deg. Initial dial revolution (dblRev) changes from 0.1 to 0.5. These steps become animation frames.