Regular Polygon
regular-polygon.pde
/**
* Regular Polygon
*
* What is your favorite? Pentagon? Hexagon? Heptagon?
* No? What about the icosagon? The polygon() function
* created for this example is capable of drawing any
* regular polygon. Try placing different numbers into the
* polygon() function calls within draw() to explore.
*/
void setup() {
size(640, 360);
}
void draw() {
background(102);
pushMatrix();
translate(width * 0.2, height * 0.5);
rotate(frameCount / 200.0);
polygon(0, 0, 82, 3); // Triangle
popMatrix();
pushMatrix();
translate(width * 0.5, height * 0.5);
rotate(frameCount / 50.0);
polygon(0, 0, 80, 20); // Icosagon
popMatrix();
pushMatrix();
translate(width * 0.8, height * 0.5);
rotate(frameCount / -100.0);
polygon(0, 0, 70, 7); // Heptagon
popMatrix();
}
void polygon(float x, float y, float radius, int npoints) {
float angle = TWO_PI / npoints;
beginShape();
for (float a = 0; a < TWO_PI; a += angle) {
float sx = x + cos(a) * radius;
float sy = y + sin(a) * radius;
vertex(sx, sy);
}
endShape(CLOSE);
}