//

//  theHardWay.m

//  Polygons

//

//  Created by John C. Randolph on Wed May 01 2002.

//  Copyright (c) 2002 __MyCompanyName__. All rights reserved.

//

 {

    // note that few of the variables used for this calculation are ivars of StringArtView.  I don't *need* their values to persist, since the NSBezierPath keeps all the state I need to redraw the view.

  int index = numPoints;

  float theta = M_PI * 2;  //M_PI is defined in the standard C headers.  Math.h, I believe.

  float sliceAngle = theta / numPoints;

  float radius = MIN(NSWidth(_frame), NSHeight(_frame)) * scaleFactor;

  NSPoint centerPoint, *perimeterPoints;

  perimeterPoints = alloca (numPoints * sizeof(NSPoint));  

  centerPoint = NSMakePoint(NSMidX(_frame), NSMidY(_frame));

  [path removeAllPoints];  // start with an empty path.

  theta += thetaOrigin;  // get the initial rotation.

  while (index--)

    {

    theta -= sliceAngle;

    perimeterPoints[index].x = centerPoint.x + radius * cos(theta);

    perimeterPoints[index].y = centerPoint.y + radius * sin(theta);

    }

  index = numPoints;

  while (index--)

    {

    int subIndex = index;

      while (subIndex--)

        {

        [path moveToPoint:perimeterPoints[index]];

        [path lineToPoint:perimeterPoints[subIndex]];

        }

    }

  [self display];

  }

*/