IChing_Step3_RandomHexagrams

Hexagram h1;


void setup () {
  size (600, 600);

  h1 =new Hexagram (200, 200, 10);
  
}


void draw () {
  background (255);
  h1.display();
  
}


class Hexagram {

  //pivot point is the top left corner of the whole hexagram
  float pivotX;
  float pivotY;
  float lineWeight;
  
  //broken or unbroken values stored for each line in the constructor

  Hexagram (float temppivotX, float temppivotY, float templineWeight) {
    pivotX = temppivotX;
    pivotY = temppivotY;
    lineWeight = templineWeight;
  }

  void display () {
    float spacing = lineWeight*2;
    float lineLength = (lineWeight*6) + (spacing*4);

    //draw the hexagram using variables!!!!
    strokeCap (SQUARE);
    stroke (0);
    strokeWeight (lineWeight);

    for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
      myline(pivotX, pivotY+i*spacing, lineLength, int (random(0,2)));
    }
  }
}



//myline is a function for drawing a single line -- we want to pass this into the object

void myline (float lineStartX, float lineStartY, float len, int broken) {

  //line styling
  if (broken = 0) {
    line (lineStartX, lineStartY, lineStartX+len, lineStartY);
  } 
  if (broken = 1) {
    //first line
    line (lineStartX, lineStartY, lineStartX+len/2 - 10, lineStartY);

    //second line
    //how do i pass a variable from the object into this function? always want the two lines to be separated by the line weight, which gets declared and initialized in the object
    line (lineStartX+len/2 +10, lineStartY, lineStartX+len, lineStartY);
  }
}