Good morning all!
For my artistic installation, I would like from the movement of a point rotating at constant speed, to be able to make 9 other points follow the first with temporal and spatial shifts.
Here is the link to see examples of uses with different temporal and spatial offsets.
https://youtu.be/IJ1tZstcywA
In the video, I start changing the time to milliseconds and the shift phase. But the problem is that all the following points shift instantly, without waiting for 2XX milliseconds. :help:
To start, we must be able to make a point called 3 moving in a circular way, followed by another point called 2 also moving in a circular way. Point 2 at a constant circular speed
Basically point 3 has no speed and is at position 0
I manage to manage a phase shift between 3 and 2 in two ways.
a temporal:
So that 3 has phase 2 with zero or 200 ms lag time for example.
In the first case, 3 and 2 have exactly the same position
In the second we observe a latency.
a space:
In such a way that 3 has phase 2 with an offset position, i.e. if there is a gap between position 2 in motion and position 3 at rest, position 3 advances by - strokes, as soon as the difference between position 3 and 2 is greater than 45° for example.
Then try to see if we can combine the two:
Make position 3 move forward 45° after 200 ms from when the difference between position 2 and 3 was greater than 45°.
It is on this last part that I have a problem, I manage to do it with position 3 and 2, but I cannot generalize with the following positions. The 4 should follow the 3 with a delay of 200 ms and a gap of 45° and so on for the positions i+1 and i.
Hoping to have been clear, I put the function below, if you have any ideas.
I guess my problem is the way I trig my timers called formerEvent[j+1]
Thank you for your efforts! 
I give only the fonction for now it could enough to find the problem
if (circularMov==true ){
if (d>=0){
decay=d; // decay in millis (50,.. 1000 ms), before changing phase i+1 with the phase from i
}
if (k>=0){
phiShift=k*-PI/16; // here the position to add or substrat to the next point (i+1)
mapShiftCircular= map (phiShift, 0, 16*-PI/16, 0, 6400); // one revolution is 6400 step
// mapShiftCircular is the space to reach in order to follow the previous point
}
formerEvent[2]=millis(); // time from the beginning of the launch of the program.
}
for (int i = 2; i < (3); i++) { // BETWEEN point 3 and 2, program works!
if ( circularMov==true && // mapShiftCircular is the space between two points
//points goes in clock wise
((CircularOldVirtualPosition[2] <= CircularVirtualPosition[2+1]+mapShiftCircular) && (CircularVirtualPosition[2] >= CircularVirtualPosition[2+1]+mapShiftCircular) &&
(CircularOldVirtualPosition[2]+800*0.1 < CircularVirtualPosition[2]+800*0.1))
||
((CircularOldVirtualPosition[2]+mapShiftCircular >= CircularVirtualPosition[2+1]) && (CircularVirtualPosition[2]<= CircularVirtualPosition[2+1]+mapShiftCircular) &&
(CircularOldVirtualPosition[2]+800*0.1 > CircularVirtualPosition[2]+800*0.1))
//points goes in counter clock wise
)
{
followNumber[i]= true;
}
else followNumber[i]= false;
if (
formerEvent[2]>formerEvent[i+1]+decay && followNumber[i]== true // followNumber[i]== Is the test true work as it should? Maybe
){
net.phase[3]=(net.phase[2])-phiShift*1;// net.oldPhase[i] keep phase at 0
net.phase[3]= net.phase[3]%TWO_PI;// keep phase between 0 and TWO_PI
memoryi=i; // to see which point to follow
formerEvent[i+1]=formerEvent[2]; // former time where point i+1 was
print (" memoryiCircular= "); print (memoryi);
}
}
for (int j = 3; j < (11); j++) {
if ( circularMov==true && //( // circularMov==true
((CircularOldVirtualPosition[j] <= CircularVirtualPosition[j+1]+mapShiftCircular) && (CircularVirtualPosition[j] >= CircularVirtualPosition[j+1]+mapShiftCircular) &&
(CircularOldVirtualPosition[j]+800*0.1 < CircularVirtualPosition[j]+800*0.1))
||
((CircularOldVirtualPosition[j]+mapShiftCircular >= CircularVirtualPosition[j+1]) && (CircularVirtualPosition[j]<= CircularVirtualPosition[j+1]+mapShiftCircular) &&
(CircularOldVirtualPosition[j]+800*0.1 > CircularVirtualPosition[j]+800*0.1))
)
{
followNumber[j]= true;
// formerEvent[j+0]=formerEvent[2];
}
else followNumber[j]= false;
if (
formerEvent[2]>formerEvent[j+1]+decay && followNumber[j]==false //followNumber[i]== true doesn't work as it should
// formerEvent[j+1]>formerEvent[j+2]+decay && followNumber[j]==true
){
// background (127, 50,50);
net.phase[j]=net.phase[j]%TWO_PI;
net.phase[j+1]=(net.phase[j])-phiShift;//
net.phase[j+1]= net.phase[j+1]%TWO_PI;// keep phase between 0 and TWO_PI
memoryi=j;
formerEvent[j+1]=formerEvent[2];
print (" memoryiCircular= "); print (memoryi);
print (" followNumber "); print (followNumber[j]);
}
}