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Neo_proc Junior Member Offline Posts: 66	scaling an ellipse Nov 10th, 2006, 12:29am   im trying to scale and ellipse for it to grow large then come back down to a size and stop at that size...does anyone know how to do this? thanks.

st33d God Member Offline Posts: 666	Re: scaling an ellipse Reply #1 - Nov 11th, 2006, 7:57pm   Code: float endSize = 200; float eSize = 0; boolean grow = true; void setup(){ size(200, 200); smooth(); } void draw(){ background(200); if(grow && eSize < endSize){ eSize += 5; } else if(grow && eSize >= endSize){ grow = false; } if(!grow && eSize > 0){ eSize -= 5; } ellipse(100, 100, eSize, eSize); }