This is the Stars program. I just like the way that Stars are geometrically shaped. This program will create Stars for you based on your input. The Options Menu can be accessed by a Right-Click anywhere on the screen. The default settings will draw a 10-pointed Star that will be slightly smaller than the available screen size.
Whenever the Number of Points is a number that is double a Prime number, this program will create two Stars that oppose each other and are each made up of the Prime Number of Points. Phew... that's a lot, so let me break it down a little for you.
The default Star is a 10-pointed Star. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that the drawing will have a total of 10-points, because what you get will be two 5-pointed Stars that are identical except for their Color and Orientation.
After the Star is drawn, there is a brief pause, then the Star explodes. Every line will move outwards in a random direction and speed. If and when a line bumps a border of the screen, it will change direction and continue bouncing. After several seconds, they will begin to implode until they once again form the Star.
The About, Help and Quit options should be self explanatory.
The Star Height option allows the user to set the size of the Star. The Default value is slightly less than the Height of the screen (in pixels). I have my screen resolution set to 1024 * 768, so the Stars program automatically sets my Star Height to 750. The Star Height must be greater than 20 pixels.
The second option is the Number of Points. The minimum Number of Points that the Stars program will draw is 3. Of course I know that a Triangle is not a Star, but it's still a nice shape, so I left the 3 and 4 sided figures in.
The next option is the Draw Mode. It is equivalent to the Draw Mode on any Form or PictureBox. Some of the Modes can be quite interesting.
After that is the Line Thickness option. If the Line Thickness equals 0 (the default value), then the Line Thickness will be selected automatically and will be relative to the Star Height.
The three choices in the Number of Colors option are:
1 Color draws the Star using only 1 Color.
2 Colors draws the Star using only 2 Colors, but this is only valid when the Number of Points is double a Prime number, such as a 10-pointed Star, as I explained in paragraphs 2 and 3 above.
Multi Colored draws the Star with each line Color chosen at random.
Draw a Circle is a Check Button option. If it is checked, the program will Draw a Circle around the Star at the end of the drawing cycle. I used this feature during testing to verify that the Stars are proportional and centered in the screen.
The last option is Randomize, which is another Check Button option, so you may turn it on and off. When Randomize is Checked, the Number of Points will be selected Randomly and will be between 3 and 148.
DownLoad your free copy of Stars.Exe
DownLoad the Stars Visual Basic source files.