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Download the 7 sprites and 29 scripts of "Flexible Line" and open it in Scratch Project Notes
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!
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I made mine like the a in star trek!
AWESOME this is sooo kool, but, could you, by any chance, make one with four little dot things?
Sure...here you go - have fun! (link to project)
(view all replies)puppy head! 120,76,108,-171,70,66,-24,-148,87
its a triangle: 138,94,-88,-150,98,146,0,-100,49
0,0,0 -0,-0,-0 -0,-0,0 is 2
100,50,125,-100,50,55,0,120,90 is awesome
Cool!
Hi paddle. I really don't want to spam, but I thought you might be interesting in this: (link to project) . I really worked hard on it, but only a few like it :(
86,53,-6,-136,-30,-88,-57,129,4 is a cool shoe!
Interesting! Thanks for showing me :)
KOOL!=)
gtlk
??? what does that stand for ???
cool!
AWESOME
wow! great!
I FOUND A SUPER COOL ONE!!!!! 0,0,0 -0,-0,-0 -0,-0,0 that lets you draw!!!!!!!!
Well, that's unexpected! Very cool find!
(view all replies)Awesome you could do cursive with this!
amazing! im a huge fan of your projects
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying it :)
If you now how to make an object look like its rolling, could you respond. Great progect!
You mean like this? (link to project)
I made a speech bubble! Brilliant coding!
A speech bubble! That's interesting :)
I made a P cool :p
dang! :O
i made french toast! :)
I love french toast!
hey there, havent heard from you in a while! Ive moved away from scratch quite a while back, but i was wondering out of interest roughly how you went about creating this type of effect? it reminds me of a vector based tool i sometimes use, and id love to know how you created this type of effect, so i can see if i could even possibly make it in another language. I would download your project, but i havent got 1.4.Good to hear from you though, and good to see your quality hasnt droped! thanks YamB
you should do scratch again! really. I am working on a new project that has really cool special effects. before you go off of scratch forever, rate my new project on a scale 1-10. I am working on it really hard! By the way, in my earlier scratching days i heard of you! You were supposed to be great so I checked out your vids and they WERE great! Congratulations on coming back to Scratch!
It's kind of difficult to explain how it works...maybe you can download 1.4? There's no reason why this couldn't be made to work in any language you want...it does some distance calculations and uses a little trig but that's about it.
Hi Yambanshee - great to hear from you. This was intended to be a cubic interpolation project - but I couldn't get the Wikipedia equations to work so I sort of invented my own.
HI there paddle2see! I just wan't to know, how to create a grid on scratch. Not just a drawing, but a block must follow the mouse but only in a grid format. please help! :)
You want to round the X and Y coordinates so that they can only be multiples of the grid size. So you would use something like "Go To GridSize*Round(MouseX/GridSize), GridSize*Round(MouseY/GridSize)" Hope that helps :)
(view all replies)coolio
Very nice.
Hi Paddle2See. I just want to say that I absolutely LOVE your projects. All of them are unique and fun. Hope you make more soon!
Thank you...I'm still Scratching away :)
hey paddle2see have you been off scratch for a while check out the comment on you random tune on paddle2seefixit
Wow! Great job Paddle2see! :)
can you tell nikkiperson2 that im not scratch.mit.edu/users/hamstermon ? thanks!
ban it! his frist project is innaporate, im gonna flag it now
Zhamster has another account! http://scratch.mit.edu/users/IamAboveYou
oh, ok, it only works offline for me
weird, whenever i enter in a code, it dosnt really draw...
This project? Maybe it is broken...
thank you for closing the Hamster rpg scibbles part1! it was really embarrising
You're welcome...that wasn't a very friendly set of posts. I'm glad you showed restraint and didn't get angry with them :)
I am making a contest. for more information search kmasroors stuff and find my project called Contest. I want you to enter in! Tell some friends about the contest. Please enter!
Dear Paddle2see, I am very sad. Some scratch users are being mean because I love math and do math projects. To one of them I wrote this. I own this Math Gallery. If you have anything against it please report to Scratch administration, THEY WILL SURELY HELP YOU OUT. For complaints against math please report to Paddle2see, he is the Scratch administrator...but the only problem is...he loves math as I do. Did I do the right thing? Regards, Ahaan
Your best response sometimes is no response - don't reply back. Just flag the comment so the Scratch Team can see if any action should be taken. I hope that helps out.
(view all replies)i love math too!
99, 26, -38, -17, -33, -165, -53, 64, -41! when before the -41 number came, 64 came so and that was mad!
6, 65, 54, 65, 188, -99, 245, 56, 171 looks like kisses chocolate XD
No kisses chocolate?
(view all replies)Hershey's chocolate?
(view all replies)Yum...chocolate!
th ufo looks more like a big blob lol
Also, the UFO code looks more like a whale...
You must have typed something in wrong...no way it looks like a whale! It looks like a flying saucer to me.
(view all replies)ohh, this is fun!
im not sure who said this but this is simalar(or however you spell that) to what they said:they should divide scratch into multiple programs so like one is an adult side (so projects wont get flagged for swearing or violence) and a kids side which is stricter
Of course, there's nothing to stop you from starting up your own website and posting any kind of projects you want :)
I have heard that idea mentioned once or twice. While it would open up more project possibilities, I think the team is interested in keeping it all one community at this time.
(view all replies)really cool how do you do that
The project calculates a bunch of points that smoothly connect the draggable dots, then uses the pen to draw the lines. The hard part was coming up with the equations to calculate the points. It's a branch of math called Interpolation.
Awsome :D It was fun making different shapes with the dots.
Paddle2see, please can you have a look at this. (link to project) Btw, great job with the mathmatical programming, keep it up!
99,26,143 -17,-33-165-52,140,13(tooth)
more like the little star trek shirt symbol.
i just contacted the scratch team
Awesome project! I had a fun time changing the location of the dots and their angles. I came up with some interesting shapes with these data sets: 129, -16, 90, -171, -15, 90, -13, -15, 180 (it look like the first derivative of a Gaussian curve) and 47, 53, 56, -5, -85, -48, -13, 53, 120 (a crude, round-bottomed heart).
The "first derivative of a Gaussian curve"? What ARE you studying? :) If it's math, maybe you can help me come up with a good cubic interpolation project that allows you to adjust the "tightness" of the curves. That would be cool.
(view all replies)bubble letter c = 21, -75, 87, -31, 2, -87, -47, 126, -90
triangle -67, -76, 88, 10, -48, -38, -64, 14, -143
letter L 21 -75 87 -1 -1 -90 -57 112 -90 it looks more like a banana though
Oh, do you know a free program that can create frame by frame graphics, like animated gifs?
There's an image editing program called Gimp that will let you do that. www.gimp.org Do a google on "Gimp animated Gif" and some help documents should show up :)
(view all replies)Wow! This is cool!
i looked at the coding and wow, you must have spent a long time on this!! (8-O
It took some time yes. What you don't see are the four of five failed attempts to make this work :)
63,96,178,-47,-63,-52,114,-7,119 that is a fish
(link to project) please request!
ok it dont matter now i said sorry to them
Well, that's good. As far as remixing goes, it's not copying as long as you credit the original author and you make some changes to it. Can't help you with the lying issue, sorry.
(view all replies)i made a wiggly shape
man, some people on scratch make me feel uncomfatble...shall i stay or quit?
If you can't tell us what the problem is, I don't see how we can try to fix it. Maybe you should just tell me.
(view all replies)If people are being mean or acting inappropriately in some other way, I hope you are flagging their comments or projects. If it's some other problem, please feel free to use the Contact Us link or email to help@scratch.mit.edu and we will try to help you out :)
(view all replies)Entertaining! This reminds me of another of your projects...It had do do with a nose ^^
Ah, yes...you are referring to Bezier Nose. You are quite correct, it is very similar, being another curved-line generating project. Curves are a hobby of mine :)
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