Sin, Cos, Tan - Random 3D Particles - haXe & flash 10 Random.swf 800 450

This example is quite simply a visual representation of 1,536,000 calls to Math.random(), each set of 3 values is taken as x,y,z co-ordinates of a particle, scaled up to fit on screen then rendered. Thus creating 512,000 particles.

The exact formula / method used is under Simplified & Snipped Code below.

Variations

This simple formula can produce rather interesting & different results by simply modifying scale values for each axis independently, more examples of this can be found here:

Full details and more examples can be found at webr3.org/blog. 

for( i in 0...PARTICLES ) {
	x = ( ( Math.random() + Math.tan(i/PARTICLES) ) / 2 ) * SCALE;
	y = ( ( Math.random() + Math.cos(i/PARTICLES) ) / 2 ) * SCALE;
	z = ( ( Math.random() + Math.sin(i/PARTICLES) ) / 2 ) * SCALE;
}