I was doing one of the examples on the p5.js website - https://p5js.org/examples/form-regular-polygon.html . I got really confused by the way rotate function worked in that code . IN the below function if I just pass rotate(frameCount) , in the browser it shows me rotating two triangles intersected w…

[image] diomedeidae: rotate(frameCount) Remember that the Matrix (the thing that stores translate and rotate) is reset at the start of draw (which runs 60 times per second). rotate(frameCount/20.0) just rotates the following shape. Since frameCount is incremented by 1 every time draw runs, …

if I just pass rotate(frameCount) , in the browser it shows me rotating two triangles intersected within forming a star , The star is just an optical illusion! You can maybe get additional intuition if you try out (and play with) some extreme cases. In this sketch, you can see three triangles th…

Conceptual Clarity on frameCount and rotate function

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Chrisir June 29, 2020, 1:03pm 3

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Conceptual Clarity on frameCount and rotate function

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