technique

Simple harmonic motion

Map an ever-increasing angle through sin() or cos(), scaled by an amplitude, to get smooth back-and-forth oscillation with a controllable period.

Also called: SHM · sine-based oscillator

What it is

How it works

Parameters & tuning

Where it’s been used

Variants & neighbours

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A kind of: Angular velocity and angular acceleration

Contrast with: Angular velocity and angular acceleration


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