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Old 25-August-2008, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Delvo View Post
Both 6° and 7.5° would be rather large increments between frames if the goal were to accurately depict the whole pattern's movement.
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I'm tempted to make a version with 1° or smaller increments between frames which rotates at the same rotational speed, but I suspect it will be too much work...
I didn't see what the size of the boxes are, but my thinking is that the rotation must be less than that of a half of a box on the outermost edge of the rotation.

Any box that moves to a position in the latter half (an integral number of boxes plus between a half and whole box) will look like it will go backwards.

For instance if we take the hypothetical distances along a radii.
1) 0.19
2) 0.38
3) 0.57
4) 0.76
5) 0.95
6) 1.14
7) 1.33
8) 1.52
boxes at distances of 3 to 5 will appear to move backwards, and then again starting at 8.
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