swarm, a simple fun project to play with tbgl

**kryton9** · 27-05-2008, 11:24

Just took a break tonight and wanted to do something fun.
Ended up with what I call Swarm.

It might take a second or two to load up and run, but as you can see the power of tbgl and thinbasic.
Few lines of code and can have a neat effect.

**Petr Schreiber** · 27-05-2008, 11:52

Thanks for sharing Kent,

I really thought each particle has its own animation, only look into code revealed the terrible secret

I like the name "swarmer", would be cool name for game character

There is something scary in that movement...

Petr

**ErosOlmi** · 27-05-2008, 12:00

Thanks Kent.

You seems very inspired

**kryton9** · 27-05-2008, 12:09

I couldn't sleep, so modded swarm into swarm 2.

Sometimes it starts out strange, other times fine... can't figure it out. But little bit of code and amazing what can appear.
Thanks guys for giving us fun language to play with!

**kryton9** · 27-05-2008, 21:44

amazing just a few very minor changes and you end up with swarm 3

**Petr Schreiber** · 27-05-2008, 21:47

Thanks Kent,

interesting to watch how the screen is full in one moment and in another the number of lines goes down.

Petr

**Petr Schreiber** · 27-05-2008, 21:58

When we have lines,

why not play a bit with line stipple?

It can be enabled using TBGL_UseLineStipple.

Then you can use TBGL_LineStipple to specify binary pattern to make line look like dotted, dashed ... you know the AutoCAD madness.

When combined with varying line width and blending ... you get swarm4

Petr