Just a thing I made for a homework simulation. It uses different images of the moon and a piece of text (bottom left) to tell you what phase the moon is in. You can use the Speed slide bar to make it go faster and slower. Hope you all enjoy, and if you think it's cool, there's always that button with a heart on it! :D
Scroll down for information about how the project works, and how it works in real life! =) 500 View Date: Some time around the middle of the night on the first of march. Or last of February. @explodingstuff found that this was ordered in the wrong way, so I fixed it. Sorry to all that viewed it before the fix. :P Oh wait, I had to fix it twice. xD Sorry guys! @ziMOInc saw the lack of the Waning Gibbous. I fixed it. I wish these bugs were gone!! YYYEEESSS!!!!! CURATED!!!!!!! =O =D =D =D =D =D =D =D (27th of Feb 2014) NO WAY. Within FIVE MINUTES, I got TWO LOVE ITS. Are you kidding me, that's EPIC! =D =D =D =D =D Credits to moonconnection.com for the epic tutorial on how the moon works! Here's the link, you should check it out: http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases.phtml This being a school project, you probably want to know how I made it. At the start, I was using a costume for the moon which was positioned about 100 pixels to the right of its center, and that was working for the Full and New stages, but then when I made the Waning Crescent, it was making my moon turn directions, which was becoming pretty weird. So, to fix it, I used two different sprites for the moon. The thing you see, which is what changes it's costumes, and the thing that re-positions the thing you see. I had to use a custom block to make the re-positioning run on turbo mode but not the rest of the simulation. The data sprite - the one in the lower left - is controlled simply by the changing of the moon's costume. It just switches to the costume name of the moon. THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT: This is not random, and it is based on something in real life! The way the moon works is like this: first of all, the moon orbits the Earth. Because the moon is in space, it must always have a shadow. Thus, when the sun shines on it, it becomes more or less visible. I know it might look weird about how on the moon is glowing at one spot and the Earth is on the other, but that's because the Earth is orbiting the sun. And note that this can't be PERFECT. That's about it! Make sense? If it does, cool! If it doesn't, well.. Oh well. Maybe you will understand more if you click the See Inside button. I don't know. :P Note: When I first made this, it was using a speed of 0.0 - 10.0, and that was WAY to fast, so I slowed it down to 0.0 - 3.0.
