[Tutor] simple animation

[Ketan Maheshwari]

That helps.
Thanks.

Kent Johnson wrote:
> 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.
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> Here is a simple animation written in Tkinter that might get you started:
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> http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-animation.htm
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> Kent
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>> 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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