Messing Around With Trig

󰃭 2013-03-05

Yesterday after work I had some time to waste, so I decided to do some silly things in javascript with a canvas and some trigonometric magic.

Move your mouse around to change some variables, and click to toggle clearing of the canvas. You can achieve some trippy effects!

colorful sine wave sine wave

colorful flower flower

These are all on my github, in case you wanna take a look.

Tags: #canvas #fun #javascript #programming-projects

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