In creative coding, sin and cos can be used for:

• Draw a wave
• Arrange items in circles and spirals
• Generate smooth periodic motion
• An ingredient of “fields”, that fill a line or space with a pattern that determines color, shape, or other qualities of drawing or motion that appears in that space.

Read

• Getting Started with p5.js, “Circular’, pp. 162–172

[The Nature of Code](<https://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-3-oscillation/>)

• Course notes:

  Arranging Items in a Circle or Spiral

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3.1: Angles and Angular Motion - The Nature of Code

3.2: Trigonometry and Polar Coordinates - The Nature of Code

3.3: Simple Harmonic Motion - The Nature of Code

3.6 Graphing Sine Wave - Nature of Code

Trigonometry - The graphs of sin and cos

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sin() basics for Creative Coding

Sine/Cosine: The Dome

Visualizing Sine and Cosine