Vector's Plan B

Inspiration

Vector from Despicable Me

What it does

It uses the rocket launch game and creates a moon that the rocket goes to and blows up.

How we built it

We used the code from the rocket launch game and then added a moon, which we made the rocket fly to by getting the angle the rocket flies to and using that to change the line the rocket moves along so it would collide with the moon. Once it gets to the moon, the rocket is moved way off-screen, and the program generates ellipses that are made larger every generation.

Challenges we ran into

Calculating the angle at which the rocket must launch to collide with the moon was difficult because the background pixel grid was flipped compared to graphs that we would normally work with, with a height equal to 0 at the base of the image.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Doing the math to find the angle at which the rocket launches

What we learned

How to use the built-in math library for Python, how to understand the variables we are working with, and how to make changes to them in order to apply them to known math theorems.

What's next for Vector's Plan B

We wanted to add some variation to the rocket launch so that it might miss.

Built With

• p5
• python