Re: [Visualpython-users] Demo code

[Dethe E. <de...@al...>]

Thanks for the clarification!

--Dethe

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Sherwood <ba...@an...>
To: VPython <vis...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] Demo code


> --On Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 4:43 PM -0700 Dethe Elza
> <de...@an...> wrote:
>
> > Are you interested in additional demos.  Attached is a simple, but
> > visually interesting sample: a spinning, color-cycling icosahedron, my
> > first VPython project. Not bad for 74 lines of code and a couple hours
of
> > work.
>
> By all means submit neat demos such as this! We will create a place on the
> VPython web site for user-submitted demos.
>
> A small point: Your program has "rate(30)" BEFORE entering the infinite
> loop, and this has no effect. The way rate(30) works is to note the
current
> time, and when you again encounter it there is a pause long enough to make
> up a total delay of 1/30 second since the previous encounter. In a loop
> this limits the looping to no more than 30 iterations per second. (Of
> course if 1/30 second has already expired when the rate(30) is again
> encountered, no pause is taken.)
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
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