❉ This project works with a twist. Click the green flag to play the animation and to change the patterns and color themes. The twist occurs when you press space - instead of an animation, you'll see 8 flashing dots/line segments in different formations. ❉ Press h/s key to hide/show the pen size slider. ❉ Music: Nova - Ahrix & Back on Track - DJVI ❉ Before I explain why I'm sharing this version, let me point out one thing first: All credit goes to @Scratch-Minion and @dodekagonia, whose original projects I remixed! I'd like to extend my appreciation to them for making such wonderful and inspirational projects. :) I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching the beautiful patterns their projects have created <333 ❉ Project links: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/183185603/ (@Scratch-Minion) https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/184971676/ (@dodekagonia) https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/185229727/ (my remix) ❉ Okay, I'm sharing this version (in addition to my remix mentioned above, which works the way I had intended) to seek help from Scratchers who are good at coding, to help me understand why part of my code would show the 8 dots/line segments, as they are not supposed to be seen, or to be seen so easily. ❉ This is how it all started. When I worked on the remix, one of the things I thought of was to add music. In the projects by @Scratch-Minion and @dodekagonia, after the initial clicking of the green flag to start the animation, one is to click the green flag again to bring on a new pattern. For me, this presents a problem if I add music, because every time one clicks the green flag to change the pattern, the music will play from the beginning again. But I like the music to play continuously without restarting from the beginning, even when a new pattern is started. My solution is to add a code that allows the viewer to change the patterns and color themes by pressing space. The day after I shared the remix, I noticed that when I pressed space, the color theme changed as intended, but the animation/the pattern did not. In other words, the pre-existing pattern continued evolving/unfolding on screen; the change in color gave the impression that the evolving pattern was a new one, but it wasn't. ❉ To solve this problem, I made some changes to the code to make the two position sprites start at different positions every time the space bar is pressed. Thinking that the new code had solved the problem, I clicked the green flag to play the project, and everything seemed to work the way it should. I then pressed space to change the pattern/color theme. The next thing I knew, I was staring at the 8 dots and was dumbfounded - as makes clear in his original project, the chance of getting the 8 dots to appear is 1 in 62,510,760 tries. When I saw the 8 dots on screen, I was too excited to consider the possibility that it might be a glitch caused by the code I just added. Neither did I press space again, because I wanted to keep the 8 dots on the screen for as long as possible. ❉ I then wrote to to tell her about it. Based on her years of study and experiences, she gently reminded me that the appearance of the 8 dots might be caused by something else. So I checked my code and after extended testing, I realized that every time I pressed space, I'd get eight dots/line segments in different formations. Eventually, I changed the code again and fixed the problem - my remix, now works the way I intended. ❉ While I think I know what part of the code might be the culprit of the appearance of 8 dots, I had trouble understanding why it would "reveal" the 8 dots/line segments or "freeze" the animations when one presses space. I've written some notes next to my codes (see inside and look at the second sprite) to indicate where I think the problematic code might be. If anyone who sees this version and knows where the problem is and the reason behind it, please kindly enlighten me. I'd be most thankful for your help <3 ~Hua ^v^ ❉ P.S. I took lots of screenshots of these 8 dot/line segment formations and put them in a special sprite called "Dot Pics". Though simple, these patterns are quite cool to me. If you look at them closely, you'll see that they're like primordial forms (or elements, to use a chemistry concept) of the innumerable beautiful kaleidoscopic patterns created by Scratch-Minion's original script. It's amazing that 8 dots/line segments can form so many patterns. But it shouldn't be too surprising if we think about how many words the 26 letters in the alphabet can make... ;D ❉ UPDATE: answered my question! Thank you so much <333 I'll keep this project shared, so that anyone who's curious about what the 8 dots look like can see them by pressing space (keep pressing, as it'll take more than one press to bring up the dots), or by looking at a sprite inside called "Dot Pics" :)
