[Tutor] simple animation

[Kent Johnson]

Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I want to create a simple animation on a 2D cartesian plane, wherein 
> there are 2 identical circles drawn at an arbitrary distance with each 
> other.

Here is a simple animation written in Tkinter that might get you started:

http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-animation.htm

Kent

> Now the idea is to move the circles randomly with a fixed step size and 
> check the distance between their centers. this uses the formula
> d=sqrt((x2-x1)**2+(y2-y1)**2). When this distance becomes same as 
> 2*radius, the circles are considered to be tangential.
> Is it possible to show this scenario as an animation sequence and 
> capturing the coordinates of the centers of the circles at each step and 
> stopping the iteration when they get tangential.
> 
> Thanks.
> k.
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