Paddle2See's Recent Projects

Music Mutations

An experiment with randomly mutating tunes played on a simple pentatonic scale. A random tune is generated and played either two or three times with slight variations. I think it makes pretty good listening - if you are in a sort of spaced out meditative mood :) Thanks to Larry828 for inspriring me to play around with this idea and his continuing enthusiastic support. Thanks to bennyallee for the wonderful background patterns!

Flexible Line

This is a pretty quick interpolation technique I came up with. It allows you to change the location (drag blue dots) or angle (drag green dots) at each of the three defining points. Click on the background to hide/show all the controls. The Report button will tell you the X,Y,Direction of each of the three defining points. The Input button lets you type in the X,Y,Direction of the three defining points. You can separate the values with spaces or commas. Put all the values in on one line. Here are some sets you can enter, if you want: Trifoil 100,85,180 -100,85,0 0,-100,-90 UFO 100,50,125 -100,50,55 0,120,90 Whale 100,0,0 -30,-50,-90 -30,70,85 Muffin -65,30,155 0,-75,90 65,30,25 If you find any interesting shapes, use the Report button to get the values and then type them into a comment. Enjoy!

Mechanism

Just a piece of dynamic art. I thought it might be fun to sort of duplicate the look of a mechanism with lots of interesting moving parts hiding and showing different portions of the background and each other. My thanks to Forest for the beautiful images and soundtrack from the wonderful "There is a rat in here" project. The soundtrack is called "Edward's Scissorhands" and is by TenchuX. It can be found on newgrounds.com Creative commons licence terms and conditions apply

Roulette

A roulette wheel for you to learn the evil dangers of gambling! You start with $20. Click on the grid to place your bets, then click on the wheel to spin. Every time you click on a grid area, you add one more "bet amount" to the wager on that number or combination of numbers. The yellow "coin" marker will only show one coin regardless of how high the wager. Something to work on, maybe. The betting grid is somewhat simplified from a version I saw on Wikimedia Commons. I have not implemented corner bets (where you can bet on a block of four numbers) or the ability to bet on a row of numbers. Credits: The roulette wheel image came from Wikimedia Commons.

Calculator With Functions

This project will evaluate a math expression that you type in using normal Infix notation, such as (3+2)*10 + 5^2 - sin 45 It knows the usual math operators (operator precedence is applied): + Addition - Subtraction * Multiplication / Division ^ Raise to a power It also knows parenthesis () and the following functions: sqrt Square Root sin Sine cos Cosine tan Tangent asin Arcsine acos Arccosine atan Arctangent It knows a couple of constants as well: x The result of the last calculation pi Pi e Euler's number phi Golden Ratio Bugs ==== Sadly, due to a bug with the JOIN block, decimal points in numbers DO NOT WORK on the downloaded project. You can work around this by using commas instead of decimal points. This bug does not seem to be present in the online player. The development team is working on this bug and hopefully will have it fixed soon. Technical Notes =========== This evaluator takes the Infix string and first converts it to a list of Infix elements. Next, is uses a modified version of the Shunting Yard Algorithm (see wikipedia) to convert the Infix list to a Postfix list (Reverse Polish Notation) which it finally evaluates. Credits ===== Thanks to wikipedia for the algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting_yard_algorithm Thanks to the Scratch Development team for adding string capabilites to Scratch!

Global Alignment

The world is a fragmented and crazy place...but every now and then the pieces come into perfect alignment...if you wait long enough :)

Paddle2See Says Hi

For Scratch Day! Music - an extract of "Penobscot Memory" by Bok, Trickett & Muir with the volume amplified and fadeout added using Audacity. Thanks to Fanmusic who supplied the following link to the online version of "Paddle to the Sea" http://nighttrainfilms.net/NTFWEB/NTFPages/PaddleToTheSea/index.htm

Tag Your Favorite Things

Controls: ====== Click on the Next or Previous Tag arrows to cycle through all the tags. You can also use the Left/Right arrow keys. Click on the stage or drag the ovals to rearrange and uncover hidden ovals. So what are your favorite things? Your hobbies or TV shows or type of Scratch Project? Leave me a comment with up to 10 tags of your favorite things and I'll add you in. Sorry, but I'm not adding in any more new tags. Also please give your favorite color for your oval. If you want to remix, that is fine...there are instuctions on how to add Tags and People on the Stage. If you want to be integrated back into the master copy (this one) just leave me a comment. This project is intended to help people find other people with similar interests and just to have some fun :) Tag List: 3D Airplanes Animals Animation Anime / Manga Art Arts / Crafts Baseball Basketball Biology Bugatti - Automobile Candy Card Games Cars Cats Cell Phone Cheese Cheesecake Chemistry Chinese Food Chocolate Classic Rock Classical Music Computer Programming Dessert Dogs Dominoes Doughnuts Drawing Fantasy Fencing Fish Fishing Food Football Fractals Friends Gimp Golf Google Guitar Halo Ham Hamsters Hard Rock Hugh Laurie - Actor Image Editing Internet iPod Jet-Pack Jonas Brothers Kayaks Linux llamas / Alpacas Lucky Star - Anime Mario Martial Arts Math Missile Movies Music Mythbusters TV Show Paint.NET Painting Pancakes Photoshop Physics Piano Pie Pizza Playing Pop Tarts Possums / Rats Punk Rock R Movies Reading Roblox Rock Music Scratch SCUBA Diving / Snorkeling Science Fiction Simulations Singing Smileys Ska Skateboarding Sleeping Snowboarding Soccer Space Spore Sports Stopmotion Animation Super Awesome Smiley Super Smash Brothers Melee Sushi Swimming Technology Vacations/Trips Video Editing Videogames Volleyball Waffles Warriors - Books Web Development Wii Writing Zombies

Kayak in Moving Water

A simulation of a kayak in an area of strong current differences. Controls: ======= Left Arrow - Paddle on the left side Right Arrow - Paddle on the right side Space bar - Reverse the paddle stroke You start off in an area of still water (darker blue). Practice your kayak strokes here until you understand how to control the boat. To paddle FORWARDS on the left side, hold down the left arrow key. To paddle BACKWARDS on the left side, hold down the space key AND the left arrow key. The right side works the same way but uses the right arrow key (of course). When you feel confident, try crossing the eddyline into the strong current area (light blue) and see if you can cross over without hitting any of the dirt areas (grey). If you find yourself stuck in the dirt, try paddling hard, you may be able to drag the boat off. Or, if all else fails, click on the old Green Flag and reset. Have fun!

Highly Caffeinated Rodents

You are now the proud owner of a family of highly caffeinated rodents! What can you do with them? You can study their habits by turning on the mouse trails...or you can try to isolate them by using your mouse to draw new walls. Or, you can just watch them scurry around. Controls: ====== Use the mouse to draw your own walls "T" key - Turn on/off mouse trails "P" key - Pause/Unpause the mice "Space" key - Clear screen Right Arrow - Next background What is this? ========= Thanks to DrMath and his wonderful "Boundaries" project, I got to thinking about little critters bumping off of walls and ways to keep them from getting stuck. I remembered the old "Return to Last Good Position" technique and decided to apply it to some mice. I tried to think up a game...but really couldn't come with anything that fun. So I thought I would repackage them as mobile art and see what you guys could come up with :) The mice are very robust...they should not get stuck unless you draw a new black line right on top of them (that confuses them!). Sometimes they get stuck when you change the background...not sure why that is happening yet.

Spring Game

A celebration of the turning of the Seasons!

Ice Pass

A very simple game: complete as many passes between the smiley faces as possible. You control the blue face and you try and bump the red puck to the yellow face before the shot clock runs out. The puck must touch your blue face before touching the yellow face for it to count as a pass and reset the clock. The time on the shot clock starts out at 30 seconds but every time you complete a pass, it is reduced by 1 second so the game gets tougher as it goes along. The physics are not accurate but the motion is quick and smooth and close enough for simple games. It uses no trig or vectors so it's pretty simple and easy to tweak. Have fun! Thanks to Gam007 for getting me playing around with this idea.

Juggle Simulator

Try your hand at juggling one, two, three or up to five balls at once! The space key loads a new ball into your left hand. The left and right arrows throw the ball from the hands. If two balls end up in the same hand at the same time they collide and you have to start over using the Green Flag. Have fun! Credits: Thanks to SalonisAwesome for talking me into putting a timer on it.

Nerdy Valentine Card

A simple effect - remarkably difficult to do. I started with a set of 6 dot sprites that I used to define a half-heart shape. I used a separate (unShared) interpolation project to make a list of points smoothly defining the shape and another list giving the direction from one point to the next. A couple of routines to plot the shape from the list of points makes the base heart shape. The braids are sine functions plotted along the short lengths of straight lines that connect the points in the list. First, the points are calculated for a horizontal line segment, then the 2D rotation formula is used to rotate the points to the actual angle of the line segment. It took a lot of tinkering, hope you enjoy it and Happy Valentine's Day!

Aerial Acrobat

Perform daring leaps from platform to platform to score the most points you can before time runs out! The longer your jump glides through the air, the more points you will score. If you miss a jump and hit an edge, there is no penalty to your score but you will lose time. Listen for the trumpet to blow...that means you were in the air a really long time and you get 50 bonus points for each blow! No points are awarded for a jump that lands on the same platform it started from. Good luck! Controls ====== Left/Right Arrow - Rotate Up Arrow - Jump Credit ====== Thanks to Jens for the rotating barbell design!