Does anyone remember the screensaver 'Rose' from the After Dark
screensaver?
It basically draws several dots on the screen which move about in
circular patterns.
(It also uses colour cycling and trails to give a nicer effect)
The help file said it used trigonometry, but nothing beyond that.
I assume it's something to do with polar coordinates.
Can anyone enlighten me?
On Thursday, 21 August 1997 08:00:00 UTC+1, Christopher Mear wrote:
Does anyone remember the screensaver 'Rose' from the After Dark screensaver?
It basically draws several dots on the screen which move about in
circular patterns.
(It also uses colour cycling and trails to give a nicer effect)
The help file said it used trigonometry, but nothing beyond that.
I assume it's something to do with polar coordinates.
Can anyone enlighten me?
Twenty years later...
The original developer of the Rose screensaver has revived it to work on modern releases of macOS, and has released it as freeware:
http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Rose.html
Chris
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