Starfield with the Spaceship Enterprise

For this assignment you will make a animation of moving through a starfield. It is very similar to viewing an exploding firework headon as the explosion ejects particles in a 3D sphere. We will do a simulation of this in our project in 2D. You may find slides approximately 13 - 43 on Unit_9a_InheritanceAndEncapsulation presentation helpful.

Program requirements:

Your program must use at least two classes to model the particles. A Particle (star) super class and an Oddball (spaceship) sub class. All the particles must be stored in a single array list of the super class type. Make sure you do not unnecessarily duplicate inherited variables and functions in the Oddball sub class. Your Oddball sub class need only contain a constructor and void move() and/or void show() so that the Oddball moves and/or looks different.

Suggested steps to completing this assignment

1. Fork this repository
2. First, finish the Particle class. It will need the following members:

• 5 member variables: X and Y positions, Color, Angle and Speed. (Hint: use doubles for X, Y, Speed and Angle)
• Particle(), the class constructor
• void move(), Takes the cos of the angle times the speed and adds it to the X coordinate. Does the same to Y with the sin of the angle.
• void show(), draws the particle in the correct color

3. Now finish the program's setup() and draw()
4. Add one Particle variable, and make sure you can see it move
5. Add an array list of type Particle and loop through it to move and show all the Particles.
6. Create an OddballParticle class that extends the Particle class.
7. Change a random element in the array to a OddballParticle instead of a Particle
8. Run your program. Make sure you can see the Oddball.
9. Submit the url of your working GitHub webpage to google classroom
10. Extensions: Do this extension to reach 100% - increase brightness of Particle() by adding a new property alpha. This property needs to be modified based on its distance from the center of the Processing canvas.