Re: Looking for best way of animating the Moon
- From: Dylan Parry <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:01:00 +0100
Using a pointed stick and pebbles, smokeyd scraped:
Well yes, the phase of the moon does change over time, but you only need to calculate the day in the cycle (29 days?) not the actual time here on Earth.
Yes you are both very clever.. so am I missing something or where have you actually been any help in this post? Or do you just spend your days trawling posts trying to be funny? Get a life you sad b@stards!
What was funny in my post? Or rather, where did I /try/ to be funny?
I offered advice, stating that it is the moon cycle period that you need to calculate, not the time of the day. The OP would need to create a script that gets the day in the phase where 29 is the maximum value of days, and represents a new moon (as does 0).
It might even be possible to have a cron tab open a text file that contains a number (/x/) and adds 1 to /x/ at midnight of each day, but resets /x/ back to zero on the 29th day. This file will then contain a number that represents the image to use for each day within the cycle.
The only thing that the OP would need to know is *which* day of the cycle the moon is in when they create the initial file and set the value of /x/ to be that day to start with.
If you cannot see that as helpful advice then you are more of an idiot than you come across. This is Usenet, not your personal help desk. Do not expect questions to be answered without discussion. If you don't like it then sod off elsewhere.
-- Dylan Parry .
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