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i am trying to do an applet with bouncing balls. each ball starts new thread.
does anyone know how can could i make balls bounce off of eachother? here is the code:

Ball class:



and here is BBalls class (main class)



and here is html code for test.html:

 
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Dear Tomaz,
I can help you in finding out whether a Ball touches another Ball(atleast its a start) but I can't help you to make them bounce off each other as I myself don't know.
Start by making a new method in the Ball class called touches(). It is to be implemented as follows:


Anyone who knows how to make them bounce off each other, PLEASE Help US!
 
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Well, implement the touches method that Shyam suggests, and if two balls touch, you reverse the directions that the balls are heading in. You do know what determines the direction of a ball in the code above, right?
(of course there's a little more to it because balls won't always hit square with each other, but for the sake of argument, let's assume they do)
 
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So if I had an array of Ball class, then I would be able to loop throught the array and call the method touches for every ball with every ball.
for example:

US

or something like that...

and thanks
 
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This is a rough idea of one way to look at collisions.
 
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