Any programmers or mathematicians in the house ?

sadbasturd99 · 2018-02-05T22:19:54+00:00

I got it, the term I needed to google which I couldn't think of was "inversely proportional"

https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/directly-inversely-proportional.html

8aller8ruh · 2018-02-05T22:20:36+00:00

move_amount = 1/length ?

fmanly · 2018-02-05T22:22:36+00:00

Well, the area of a circle is proportional to the square of the radius/diameter/circumference. The same applies to the surface area of a sphere. The volume of a sphere is proportional to the cube of the radius/diameter/circumference.

Obviously the exact formula is pi*r^2 but you could scale it any way you wanted to. If this is just a visual effect you might not actually want to fully scale it with the square/cube and you could really use any exponent greater than 1. Ultimately you are probably more interested in the look of it than modeling some actual physics.

In general though if you apply the same force to two spheres of identical composition but one is twice the diameter of the other, the larger one will be accelerated 1/8th as much.

SentientApe · 2018-02-05T23:24:46+00:00

You could post in r/theydidthemath (or r/theydidthemonstermath).

I'll also take a shot at it though.

Assuming your 'length' value is the circumference(?), you would need create an inverse relationship for the speed value (length increase, speed decrease)

I'm also assuming you have a minimal speed value that the circle starts off with, somehow equivalent to the circumference of the circle.

So, first off you'll need to set some variables: Len1= smallest (fastest) length Len2= new length (value will change with each iteration) Spd= Len1 (primarily set to the fastest value to have a placeholder)

Speed would be calculated as: Spd=(Len1/Len2)*Len1

For example: Len1=10 Len2=10 Spd=10

Spd=(10/10)*10 Results Spd=10

Whereas: Len1=10 Len2=20 Spd=10

Spd=(10/20)*10 Results Spd=5

Of course I'm not entirely certain as to what you are using for presentation, so I cannot guarantee that this will work satisfactorily....

Mefic_vest · 2018-04-06T03:35:42+00:00

What you are talking about sounds remarkably like orbital mechanics. For example, Mercury circles the sun much faster than the Earth does, simply because it is closer to the sun. Even the linear speed that it moves in its orbit is a lot faster. You might want to look into the functions that describe orbital speed as a function of the centre object and the distance from it.

nevasayyes · 2018-04-29T21:42:15+00:00

What you are asking about sounds like Generative Art. Best built in JS. Check out r/generative

Title	Any programmers or mathematicians in the house ?
Author	sadbasturd99
Upvotes	3
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Date	February 5, 2018 9:20 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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