Spinning Pins

An R experiment to create animated patterns made by pins in movement.

An example:

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You will need to install the following packages (if you don’t have them already):

install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("data.table")
install.packages("gganimate")

Parameters

Animations depend on three main parameters:

• n_points: Dimension of the grid (n_points x n_points)
• closeness: Separation of consecutive pins between columns (in radians).
• speed: Incremental angle to add in each frame to all pins
• v_angles: Initial arrange of pins

More info

A complete explanation of the experiment can be found at fronkonstin

Animation is obtained thanks to gganimate package, by Thomas Lin Pedersen,available here.

Author:

Antonio Sánchez Chinchón:

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