Re: rotating ASCII donut

["Timm S. Mueller" <tmueller@...>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:38:49 +1100
Andrew Trevorrow <andrewtrevorrow@gmail.com> wrote:

> Below is a Lua version of Andy Sloane's rotating ASCII donut
> (see http://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html).
> Only tested in Terminal.app on macOS but should work in any
> terminal that supports standard ANSI escape sequences.
> Note that I aimed for an aesthetically pleasing donut shape
> rather than the shortest possible code.
> 
>                 local io=io.write
>            local i,j,k local z,b={},{}
>         local a=".,-~:;=!*#$@"local A=0.0
>       local sin=math.sin local cos=math.cos
>     local int=math.floor io("\27[2J")local B=
>    0 while true do for i= 0,1759 do b[i]=" " z
>   [i]=0.0 end j=0.0 while 6.28 > j do i=0 while
>  6.28>i do local c=sin(i)local d=cos(j) local e=
> sin(A)local f=sin(j)         local g=cos(A) local
> h=d+2 local D= 1/(             c*h*e+f*g+5) local
> l=cos(i) local m=               cos(B)local n=sin
> (B) t=c*h*g - f*e               local x=int(40+30
> * D*(l*h*m - t*n))             local y= int(12+15
> * D*(l*h*n + t*m))o=         int(x+80*y) local N=
>  int(8 *((f*e-c*d*g)*m - c*d*e - f*g - l*d*n))+1
>   if 22>y and y>0 and x>0 and 80>x and D > z[o]
>    then z[o]= D if N > 1 then b[o]= a:sub(N,N)
>     else b[o]=a:sub(1,1) end end i=i+0.02 end
>       j= j + 0.07 end io("\27[H")for k = 0,
>         1760 do if k%80>0.0 then io(b[k])
>            else io("\n") end end A= A+
>                 0.04 B=B+0.02 end

Very cool, thanks :-)

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Timm S. Mueller <tmueller@schulze-mueller.de>
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