Brownian Trails

[Lindquist]

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I was wondering what combining Brownian Motion and Trails would create. Turned out pretty nice.

Enjoy ;)

-L

[amitgeorge]

define Brownian Motion for the dumb (like me)

[Lindquist]

It's random motion discovered by a guy named Brown. Brownian motion usually refers to things like dust that moves randomly in a glass of still water because the molecules (that are constantly in motion) in the water knock the dust around.

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define Brownian Motion for the dumb (like me)

[amitgeorge]

oui je

[Krilnon]

Eh.... but the movement in Flash isn't brownian motion.

[Lindquist]

That's like arguing that the movement in the gravity tutorials isn't really gravity... Are you trying to make a point or something?


Eh.... but the movement in Flash isn't brownian motion.

[Krilnon]

I don't know, but it just sounds like you were trying to make a cool name for it, but I think random is a better descriptor. In the case of the gravity-in-flash tutorials, can you think of a more fitting name? (Then it would be most helpful for it to be named that)

I think brownian motion was first explained in cells, no?

[Lindquist]

There is a difference between the motion in my movie and the random motion normally presented on kirupa.

The majority of random motion tutorials focus on finding a random point to move to and then moving to that point.

My example travels at random increments and directions.

Brownian Motion - "A stochastic process in which the random variable moves continuously and follows a random walk with normally distributed, independent increments."

[Krilnon]

Hmm.. Your reasons for naming it that make more sense now, I hadn't scrutinized your code as the motion doesn't look that different ( though looking at it more closely, it does seem different) :)

You could make invisible particles fly around the stage and their collision with an object could cause it to move :P