Hello! After solving yesterday's problem of water ripples, a new one occured: I want the letters of a String to rotate and behave like a nice alphabet soup ;)
I tried different ways. I've split the String with a CharAt command and played around with some rotate() and scale(), but the results are very bad. I found some interesting libaries, like traer.physics or NextText. But i was wondering if i can handle this problem without using any complicated libary?!

Here's how i done it so far. Problem is that the letters are not flying away as a circle, but as kind of a helix. Heres the code:

import processing.opengl.*;

PFont fontRegular;


String buchstaben[] = new String[500];
float count = 1;
String flashWord;


float [] myPosX = new float[500];
float [] myPosY = new float[500];

void setup() {  
 size(1024,786,OPENGL);  
 fontRegular = createFont("Monaco", 16);
 textFont(fontRegular);
 smooth();
flashWord = "Dietmar Bartsch hat einen Preis gewonnen!";
flashWord = flashWord.toUpperCase();
  for(int i=0; i < flashWord.length(); i++) {
   buchstaben[i] = flashWord.substring(i,i+1);
 }
}  

void draw() {
 background(#364d76);

 for(int i=0; i < flashWord.length(); i++) {
 
   noStroke();
   fill(0);
   textAlign(CENTER);
 
//  text(buchstaben[i], width/2-150+i*10, height/2);
   
   myPosX[i] = count*cos(TWO_PI/flashWord.length()*i) + width/2-250+i*10;
   myPosY[i] = count*sin(TWO_PI/flashWord.length()*i) + height/2;
   
   if(i < 50) {
   pushMatrix();
   translate(myPosX[i], myPosY[i]);
   fill(#b8bddd, random(30,100));
   textAlign(CENTER);
   text(buchstaben[i], random(0,2), random(0,2));
   popMatrix(); }
   
   if(i > 50 && i < 100) {
   pushMatrix();
   translate(myPosX[i]-500, myPosY[i]+16);
   fill(#b8bddd, random(30,100));
   textAlign(CENTER);
   text(buchstaben[i], random(0,2), random(0,2));
   popMatrix(); }
   
   
   
   }
 
 count = count + 0.25f;
 if (count >= 600) {
   count = 1;
 }
}




I'm thankful for any advice or hint,

greets

Yeah, this is beause in the beginning there's a readable sentence "Dietmar Bartsch hat einen Preis gewonnen!" written like a normal text() command. After this the letters should begin to arrange in a circle which gets bigger and bigger.

The X position width/2-250+i*10 arranges them exactly as the text(), because i used monospaced type (10 px for every letter).

Any suggestion?