Animation basics for a vacation
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Since I have a vacation this time I decided to implement some entertaining graphics. I have chosen to animate a Cassini oval.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
The task is can be accomplished using polar equation:
library(animation)
xy <- function(angle, a, b) {
ca <- cos(2 * angle)
r2 <- a ^ 2 * ca + sqrt(a ^ 4 * ca ^ 2 – (a ^ 4 – b ^ 4))
c(sqrt(r2) * cos(angle), sqrt(r2) * sin(angle))
}
go <- function() {
angle <- seq(0, 2 * pi, len = 1000)
par(mar = rep(0,4))
b <- 1 + 0.5 * seq(0, 1, len = 31) ^ 3
b <- c(b, 1.5, rev(b))
for (i in b) {
coord <- t(sapply(angle, xy, a = 1, b = i))
plot(coord, type = “l”,
xlim = c(-2, 2), ylim = c(-1.25, 1.25))
polygon(coord, col = “gray”)
}
}
ani.options(interval = 0.1)
saveGIF(go())
Parameter a is fixed to 1 and b changes from 1 to 1.5. In order to achieve smooth animation the sequence defining changes of b is not uniform but is more dense near 1.
And here is the result:
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