Qbasic

Melt is a technique I've been using when developing 2D games to demonstrate the illusion of melting objects. This effect is something that you cannot just do in Photoshop. Some things are better done the hard way giving you more control of the parameters and function behavior. This is another Throwback Thursday's article so I've written it using QBASIC.

The Technique is simple, you can apply it to any bitmap/canvass of any modern graphic libraries that you are using. The basic idea is, given an object you need to:

Today is Throwback Thursday and so I decided to create a simple graphic script using QBASIC - the first programming language I fell in love with in the 90s.

Sierpinski Triangle is a fractal equilateral triangle (60 degrees on each angle with equal length of sides) subdivided recursively into smaller triangles as shown in the figure above.

Although the pattern can be easily created using recursion, our demonstration uses the chaos game approach to construct the triangle.