Bouncing balls

A simple program in BB4W BASIC featuring some coloured bouncing balls.  Students will like to change the various parameters for more fun!  Will run in the free version of BB4W.

Change the size of the balls; the total number of balls; the height dropped; the strength of gravity and the 'bounciness' of the balls.


Source code below:

     REM balls bouncing under gravity
     REM T Street
     REM 2014-11-25
     
MODE 10  : OFF
     
REM screen dimensions
     
SCREEN_WIDTH% = 1440
     SCREEN_HEIGHT% = 1152

     REM --------------------------------------------------
     REM CHANGE THESE PARAMETERS FOR MORE FUN
     REM --------------------------------------------------
     
MAX_BALL_SIZE% = 70 : REM max size of a ball

     REM don't set too high unless you have a fast computer
     
NUM_BALLS% = 30

     Y_OFFSET% = 100 : REM the minimum distance from the ground

     
GRAVITY = 9.8 : REM strength of gravity
     
BOUNCINESS = 0.91 : REM how bouncy the balls are

     
DELAY% = 7
     REM --------------------------------------------------


     REM some colours
     
COLOUR 1, 0, 0, 0 : REM black

     REM the ball object
     
DIM ball{( NUM_BALLS% -1) x, y,    \ coordinates
     
\                         r%,        \ ball radius
     
\                         velocity , \ integer component of velocity
     
\                         green%,    \ amount of green
     
\                         blue%      \ amounf of blue
     
\ }


     PROC_createBalls( ball{()} )

     REM MAIN LOOP
     
REPEAT
       PROC
_showBalls( ball{()} )
       WAIT DELAY%
       PROC_deleteBalls( ball{()} )
       PROC_moveBalls( ball{()} )
     UNTIL FALSE




     
DEFPROC_createBalls( this{()} )
     REM give each ball a random position and velocity
     
LOCAL i%
     FOR i% = 0 TO NUM_BALLS% - 1
       this{(i%)}.x = RND(SCREEN_WIDTH%)
       this{(i%)}.y = RND(SCREEN_HEIGHT%-Y_OFFSET%)+Y_OFFSET%
       this{(i%)}.r% = 10 + RND(MAX_BALL_SIZE%)
       this{(i%)}.green% = RND(255)
       this{(i%)}.blue% = RND(255)
     NEXT
     ENDPROC


     
DEFPROC_showBalls( this{()} )
     REM draw all the balls on the screen
     
LOCAL i%
     *refresh off
     FOR i% = 0 TO NUM_BALLS%-1
       GCOL 0,1
       CIRCLE FILL this{(i%)}.x, this{(i%)}.y, this{(i%)}.r%
       REM get colour for ball
       
COLOUR 2, 0, this{(i%)}.green%, this{(i%)}.blue%
       GCOL 0, 2
       CIRCLE FILL this{(i%)}.x, this{(i%)}.y, this{(i%)}.r% - 4
     NEXT
     
*refresh on
     ENDPROC


     
DEFPROC_deleteBalls( this{()} )
     REM remove all the balls on the screen
     
LOCAL i%
     *refresh off
     FOR i% = 0 TO NUM_BALLS%-1
       GCOL 0,1
       CIRCLE FILL this{(i%)}.x, this{(i%)}.y, this{(i%)}.r%
       REM get colour for ball
     
NEXT
     
*refresh on
     ENDPROC


     
DEFPROC_moveBalls( this{()} )
     REM move the balls
     
LOCAL i%
     FOR i% = 0 TO NUM_BALLS%-1
       this{(i%)}.y += (this{(i%)}.velocity)
       this{(i%)}.velocity -= GRAVITY
       REM check for going off the bottom of the screen
       
IF this{(i%)}.y < this{(i%)}.r% THEN
         
REM bounce!
         
this{(i%)}.velocity = ABS(this{(i%)}.velocity) * BOUNCINESS
       ENDIF
     NEXT
     ENDPROC