I am a high school math teacher.
My students and I are programming our TI-83 and TI-83+ calculators to do basic animations. We have figured out how to create and store a picture that can repeatedly be invoked within a program. For example, we have animated an "arrow" moving across the screen toward a "target". The beginning of our program creates the target and stores it using StorePic Pic1, then we can recall it later in a loop in our program. This enables the circles of the target to be represented by the Pic1 and not have to have the calculator redraw the circles each time to create the target but rather, simply redisplay the collection of them repeatedly.
However, what if we want to create and store a picture that we then want to move around the screen. For example, our assignment is to create an animation of a sun rising and then setting.
Here's my question: Is there a way for me to store a representation of a sun (a circle, for starters!) and then use RecallPic in a loop but the RecallPic recalls the picture and puts it at different locations on the screen? Is this possible with a TI-83? Thanks in advance for your help!
My students and I are programming our TI-83 and TI-83+ calculators to do basic animations. We have figured out how to create and store a picture that can repeatedly be invoked within a program. For example, we have animated an "arrow" moving across the screen toward a "target". The beginning of our program creates the target and stores it using StorePic Pic1, then we can recall it later in a loop in our program. This enables the circles of the target to be represented by the Pic1 and not have to have the calculator redraw the circles each time to create the target but rather, simply redisplay the collection of them repeatedly.
However, what if we want to create and store a picture that we then want to move around the screen. For example, our assignment is to create an animation of a sun rising and then setting.
Here's my question: Is there a way for me to store a representation of a sun (a circle, for starters!) and then use RecallPic in a loop but the RecallPic recalls the picture and puts it at different locations on the screen? Is this possible with a TI-83? Thanks in advance for your help!