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This beginner course demonstrates how to create a gravity-based physics simulation with JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas. It covers drawing and animating balls, velocity, gravity, friction, boundaries, and randomized visual properties.
Syllabus
- Intro to Gravity: What is it? How do we translate it to code?
- Screencast portion begins using git and setting up the project
- Drawing the ball
- Adding velocity
- Adding gravity
- Adding friction
- Making a visually pleasing canvas piece using gravity creating and animating multiple balls
- Adding boundaries to the left and right hand sides of the screen
- Randomizing radii
- Randomizing colors
Taught by
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