| Examples |
PVector v1, v2;
void setup() {
smooth();
noLoop();
v1 = new PVector(40, 20);
v2 = new PVector(25, 50);
}
void draw() {
ellipse(v1.x, v1.y, 12, 12);
ellipse(v2.x, v2.y, 12, 12);
v2.add(v1);
ellipse(v2.x, v2.y, 24, 24);
} |
| Description |
A class to describe a two or three dimensional vector. This datatype stores two or three variables that are commonly used as a position,
velocity, and/or acceleration. Technically, position is a point and velocity and acceleration are vectors, but this is often simplified to consider
all three as vectors. For example, if you consider a rectangle moving across the screen, at any given instant it has a position (the object's location,
expressed as a point.), a velocity (the rate at which the object's position changes per time unit, expressed as a vector), and acceleration (the rate at
which the object's velocity changes per time unit, expressed as a vector). Since vectors represent groupings of values, we cannot simply use traditional
addition/multiplication/etc. Instead, we'll need to do some "vector" math, which is made easy by the methods inside the PVector class.
There are additional methods and other ways to use some of these methods in the developers reference. |
