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Perfect Circle

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Re: Perfect Circle

#15
post #10

Also interesting to try to get low percentages. Worst I could get was 53.1% by drawing a rectangle over my whole screen.

2.7% by starting the rectangle close to the dot (it measures deviation from the initial radius)

Re: Perfect Circle

#16
post #9

This is fun and had a high potential for giving me some repetitive strain injury. My highest score of 97.1 doesn't visually feel like the best circle I've drawn though.

Its ideal circle is centred on the dot

Re: Perfect Circle

#17
Try to keep the radius as small as it lets you. Move very slowly, you'll likely be too slowly the first few tries but find the slowest speed possible. I got 97.3% with a mouse doing this.

Re: Perfect Circle

#19
As a tip: what it's really checking is for a circle centered on the dot in the middle with the radius equal to your initial click's distance from the center. You could make a mid sized perfect circle which is slightly off the center of the dot and lose to a square that fills the play area.

Re: Perfect Circle

#20
Hey this is so well done! You know, you could put the sun on one of the the two focii and ask the user to draw the elliptical orbit of the earth - perfect real-life usecase.
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