Carousel Generator

Here we have 2 for loops, one to create horizontal rings, and another to duplicate the rings.

How can we make the lights on the inside column curve.

Our first step will be to make the start of the for loop, (the bottom) start slightly larger, and the end (the top) of the for loop to finish slightly smaller.

In our for loop, we have the current ring we are on and divide it by the total amount of rings to get a 0 to 1 value that we can use.

We can then lerp with the 0 to 1 value between the original radius and a 1.3 times larger version of that radius.

That gives us this growing in radius rings as we go higher in ring position column.

But we want it to be big at the bottom, then skinny at the middle, and then biggest at the top.

To begin this, we actually just add a simple exponent to the alpha in lerp. We don't have to think about the math too hard because the highest number will be 1. 1 to the power of say something like 50 will still be 1. Therefore, this will cause our change to not be linear anymore...

And then look we get the curve!

We can now adjust the exponent value to change where the curve happens

And then we can try to create the roof of the carousel by making the final goal radius to be larger.

Let's add some mirror tiles!

We already have the data for the lights, so we can just re use that logic but with a smaller radius.

Now to rotate them we can create a vector form the tile position to its respective light and rotate them to that vector!

Now time to lerp the scale.

let's see what size we need to make them at the bottom

Almost there...

Ok time for the top values

Almost there...

There we are!

Now let's just set these as our lerp values for scale and use a slightly different power function with 5 instead of 9.