Question on making an object bounce off walls

This is a very basic program I wrote. It is an ellipse moving. How do I make it bounce off the walls continuously?

Thank you in advanced!
Mike.

-- First Program

-- Use this function to perform your initial setup
function setup()
    print("Hello World!")
    x= WIDTH/2    
    y= HEIGHT/2
end

-- This function gets called once every frame
function draw()
    background(12, 241, 12, 0)
    ellipse(x, y, 100)
x= x+1    
y= y+1
end

See the code here, take the last version at the bottom, alter the physics settings to get the friction as you want it, this code handles collisions nicely too

http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/Talk/discussion/comment/17316

Also, use 3 tildes instead of 2 so the code doesn’t clump together.

Hey Mike,

This is the simplest bouncing ball demo I could do. the vx/vy is you displacement, change those 2 numbers in setup to anything between -1 & 1 or -20 & 20 if you want it really fast.

--# Main
 
function setup()
        print("Hello World!")
        x = WIDTH / 2
        y = HEIGHT / 2
        vx = 1;
        vy = 1;
end
 
function draw()
        x = x + vx
        y = y + vy
 
        background(12, 241, 12, 0)
        ellipse(x, y, 100)
 
        if x > WIDTH or x < 0 then
                vx = -vx;
        end
 
        if y > HEIGHT or y < 0 then
                vy = -vy;
        end
end

Does the “v” in “vx” or “vy” mean velocity?

Yep

Okay I just got the code down and I understand it. Now what/how would I make two objects bounce off each other?

for something like that you’ll want to use physics. Please note a lot of the practices you may or may not observe in my code are not advised. For example i should have used a table to keep track of the circles. And the way I’ve littered the code with comments is not very… pretty

supportedOrientations(ANY)

function setup()
    displayMode(FULLSCREEN)
        
    -- create the edge lines
    line1 = physics.body(EDGE,vec2(5,5),vec2(5,HEIGHT-5))
    -- creates the first line which starts from the bottom vec2(5,5)
    -- and ends in the top left corner vec2(5,HEIGHT-5)
    line2 = physics.body(EDGE,vec2(WIDTH-5,5),vec2(WIDTH-5,HEIGHT-5))
    -- the reason we begin the lines 5 pixels above ground is so that
    -- can see it better. Remmber vec2 is just a shorter way two secify
    -- two points.
    line3 = physics.body(EDGE,vec2(5,5),vec2(WIDTH-5,5))
    -- bear in mind that these dont actually "DRAW" the lines
    -- but rather puts invisible barriers.
    line4 = physics.body(EDGE,vec2(5,HEIGHT-5),vec2(WIDTH-5,HEIGHT-5))
    -- we will draw the lines later

        circle1 = physics.body(CIRCLE,50) -- this creates the actual circle but DOESNT draw it
        circle1.x = math.random(30,WIDTH-30) -- this gives a random position between
                                             -- 30 and the screen width minus 30
        circle1.y = math.random(30,HEIGHT-30) -- same as before but for the y position
        circle1.gravityScale = 0 -- gravity doesnt affect this cicle
        circle1.restitution = 1 -- this circle is bouncy
        circle1.friction = 0 -- the amount of friction to be applied to the circle
        circle1.linearVelocity = vec2(math.random(400),math.random(400))  -- the velocity of the circle
        
        -- creating the second circle
        circle2 = physics.body(CIRCLE,50)
        circle2.x = math.random(30,WIDTH-30)
        circle2.y = math.random(30,HEIGHT-30)
        circle2.gravityScale = 0
        circle2.restitution = 1
        circle2.friction = 0
        circle2.linearVelocity = vec2(math.random(400),math.random(400))
end

-- the function to be called wehn two physics objects collide
function collide(contact)
    if contact.state == BEGAN then
        sound(SOUND_HIT,50)    -- createca sound for collision
    end
end

function draw()
    background(50, 50, 50) 
    stroke(0,0,255)
    strokeWidth(4)
    noFill()
    -- actually draw the circles
    ellipse(circle1.x,circle1.y,100,100)
    ellipse(circle2.x,circle2.y,100,100)
    stroke(255) 
    strokeWidth(5)
    -- actually draw the edge lines
    line(5,5,5,HEIGHT-5)
    line(WIDTH-5,5,WIDTH-5,HEIGHT-5) 
    line(5,5,WIDTH-5,5)
    line(5,HEIGHT-5,WIDTH-5,HEIGHT-5)
end

Wow! I did not think it’d take that much! Thank you for the explanation, now i’m going to study your code, and practice.

The code I linked to earlier above handles collisions, and also spins objects around, which is handy if they’re not circular

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