Elipse
Elipse creates sort of an inside out un-circle using straight lines ONLY. See the example on the right. There are 3 controls you may use to alter the Elipse. Read on for more information on what the controls do, then change some numbers and see what happens.Speed
Border
Spread
The Buttons
3 New Buttons
Miscellaneous
Double Elipse
Speed does exactly what it sounds like. It controls how fast I draw the Elipse for you. The one thing you have to remember is this: The smaller the number, the faster I will draw your Elipse. Use larger numbers to more easily see what Elipse is doing, or more acurately, how Elipse is doing it.
The Border is the blank space around the outside of the Elipse. It is represented as a percentage of your screen size. In other words, if the actual display area of your screen is 10 inches high and 12 inches wide, and you enter a Border number of 10, then the Border will be .5 inches on the top and bottom and .6 inches on the sides. .5 + .5 = 1 inch, or 10% of the screen height and .6 + .6 = 1.2 inches, or 10% of the screen width. The larger you make the Border, the smaller the Elipse will be. Valid numbers for the Border are from 0 to 90, inclusive.
Note: I will move the Controls outside of the Elipse whenever the Border is greater than 50, because the Controls will be too large to fit inside the Elipse.
The Spread is the distance between each line at the outside of the Elipse. The smaller you make the Spread, the tighter the lines will be. A small number here will make the Elipse appear to be a solid color. In other words, you won't see the individual lines. I can't tell you how small the Spread needs to be to make it appear solid, because there are too many variations of Monitors and Screen Resolutions. All I can suggest is that you try a few different settings and see what happens.
The Once Button will draw 1 Elipse according to the way you have the Speed, Border and Spread settings defined. The colors of the Elipse will change each time you press the Once Button.
The Quit Button will Quit Elipse .
The Help Button displays this Help screen.
The Play Button tells Elipse to generate displays randomly. A new Elipse is displayed every 3 seconds. You can stop the display by pressing the Start Button or the Quit Button. I added a New Button called Pause, which will also stop the display. When you press the Play Button, it will be replaced by the Pause Button and vice versa.
The Controls will be updated to show the current values. You may hide the Controls by moving the Mouse Pointer off of them.
The Keep Colors Button allows you to continue drawing using the current colors. When the Keep Colors Button is pressed, it changes to the Random Colors Button and vice versa.
The Double Elipse Button switches to a different program which is explained below.
The Keep Controls Button makes the program continue drawing using the current Control settings. When the Keep Controls Button is pressed, it changes to the Random Controls Button and vice versa.
The colors of the 4 quadrants are picked at random. It is likely that some of the colors will be very similar. Of course, this being a rule, there has to be an exception. The exception here is that occasionally I will make all 4 colors identical. It's just for effect.
Can you determine what causes the 4 colors to be identical? It won't be easy. You have to be very perceptive to spot it. It is not done randomly!
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Double Elipse is pretty much the same as Elipse except that it creates 2 Elipses, one inside the other. The other main difference is that there are no controls available in Double Elipse. The 8 colors of the Double Elipse and the other factors are all picked at random.
The 2 Elipses are actually drawn slightly different from each other. The Outside (or Larger) Elipse is created so that each color is dominant.
In other words, the most recent line drawn will be on top of any other lines. The Inside (or Smaller) Elipse is created using a Merge Mode, in which the colors Merge with each other.