In Circles Programming Assignment

Overview
In this project you will use for and while loops to produce circular motion. There are two parts to the assignment. In the first part you will roll a ball around a circular track. In the second part you will produce a colored spiral, roll a ball along a spiral path, then slowly erase the original spiral. Goals

• Practice for and while loops.
• Write code using arithmetic expressions and trigonometric functions.
• Learn how to make your programs respond to the mouse button.

• Find the folder "InCircles Ä" and copy it to the desktop.
• Run the application program "InCirclesSolution". Your final program should look pretty much like this. You can make it fancier if you feel inspired.

• Double click on the project "InCircles.µ" to open the CodeWarrior IDE.
• Double click on "InCircles.cp" in the project window. The source code file should appear.

Writing the Code: You must add two functions:

	void CircleTrack(void);
	void Spiral(void);

	void CircleTrack(void){
	}

Run your program to make sure it compiles.

The Circular Track

(4) Draw the track
In the sample, the center of the track is 150 pixels from the center of the drawing window and the ball has radius 13. You can make a track like the one in the sample by calling:

	PaintRect		to color the whole drawing window
	EraseCircle		to clear everything inside the outer edge of the track 
	PaintCircle		to fill in everything inside the track

	AwaitClick(); 

(6) Roll the ball around the track.

You need some trigonometry to do this task. In the demo application, the angle theta that the ball has traveled around the circle starts at 0” and increases in 1” increments. The following picture should remind you of the conversion from polar coordinates to x, y coordinates:

The formulas:

x = R*cos(angle), y = R*sin(angle)

where R is the track radius, assume that angle is measured in radians. Our angle is measured in degrees so you must first do the conversion:

	angle = theta*2*pi/360;		// pi is an already defined constant

Use Delay(1) to slow down the ball so it moves at a reasonable speed. Insert the delay after you draw the ball and before you erase it. This makes a ball present on the screen most of the time and fools us into believing itÕs always there.

(7) How long should the loop run?

To let the ball continue moving until the mouse button is pressed, use a while loop:

	while (not Button()){
	} 

The Spiral

(8) First draw the spiral in black.
A good range for theta is: 0 <= theta < 1000. Use the same conversions from polar to x, y coordinates as described above. This time, however, the distance r of the ball from the center of the window changes with theta. The formula:

		r = theta/5

(9) Now make the color vary with theta.
Call SetForeColor(red, green, blue) before the PaintCircle call. Let the color values red, green, and blue vary with theta but make sure they stay in the range 0 to 255.

(10) Erase the spiral by using EraseCircle and running the loop from theta = 1000 to theta = 0.

(11) Finally, add the little ball that runs around the spiral. Put this code before the code that erases the spiral.

(12) In the solution program, a click on the mouse will end the spiral. This is accomplished by adding the call

	if (Button()) return;

Due Date: Turn in at your Lab class, Tuesday or Wednesday, October 7 or 8.

Turn in a print-out of your code and a diskette with your project (.µ), your source code (.cp), and a working application program.

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