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- Lissajous Version 0.2 May 26, 1991
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- Windows 3 program to draw Lissajous-type figures.
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- This is one of my first exercises in Windows programming, which I would
- like to share with the net in return for all the useful programs that I
- got from there. It does nothing useful, productive or scientific, it
- just draws some nice graphic figures which are a fun to watch.
-
- The history of this program goes nearly 20 years back, when we got a
- calendar from a german computer company (maybe it was Siemens, but I
- don't remember it precisely), which contained such figures. Some of them
- looked really good, but many of them were only 'explosions in a
- sauerkraut factory', as I used to say then. There was a accompanying
- SIMULA program with some strange constructions in it, but after playing
- with it I eventually was able to extract the essential parts and found
- out how to set the variables to get the good-looking variations.
- Since then this thing has been one of my preferred graphic test
- programs which I ported to every graphic system that came my way.
-
- Things still to come with this Windows version:
- continuous drawing, 256 color support, interactive setting of all the
- parameters and colors (when I have learned to program menus and dialog
- boxes :-).
- Up to then have fun with a version which generates all figures randomly
- and needs a mouse click for every new figure.
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- Jochen Roderburg
- Regional Computing Center
- University of Cologne
- Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Tel.: +49-221/470-4564
- D-5000 Koeln 41 Internet: Ro @ RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE
- Germany BITNET: A0045 @ DK0RRZK1
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