Comments on: Happy Pi Day…Sort Of

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:32:53 +0000

Good point, Miles!

In the illustration for “gravity” text, I moved the pin/rotation point off of the left side of the rectangle (the one at 3 O’ Clock), made 11 in-place duplicates, then rotated them into position.

Having the out-of-box pin made it easy to make a circle of non-overlapping rectangles!

By: Miles

Miles — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:10:27 +0000

One little thing – locPin can be outside the shape which can be useful if you want to rotate a copy of a shape around a point external to the shape (e.g. petals on a flower) – just have width*1.5 etc. Great article as always

By: Russell

Russell — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:11:04 +0000

Hi Visio guy,

In Australia we write our dates dd/mm/yyyy, so July 22 would be our Pi day. 22/7 = 3.14

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