Today I got a little distracted by a simple tweet… These planets look pretty cool, so I decided to try to create one. I jumped to Pixelmator which I bought a while ago. Uh. It doesn’t have a ‘Polar Coordinates’ filter. Oh well, I thought. How hard can it be to implement in Quartz Composer? Answer: Most of a day.
Was interesting to dig out basic trig knowledge, and I’m sure my solution isn’t optimal, but it was a fun way to spend an afternoon.
I got there in the end, but unfortunately a little late to actually spend the time to make a decent planet… maybe something for the train tomorrow.
Anyway, I’ve uploaded the .qtz file to downloads.illsley.org. Feel free to grab it and drop it in ~/Library/Compositions/ if you want to play with planets on the Mac.
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