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Elastic Mouse

This is my favorite script on the entire site. Move your mouse and the cursor trail has an elastic effect to it. Try bouncing it off of the Browser "walls". *bounce* Haha, awesome script!!!

Click Here to see the script in action!

Author: Philip Winston

Place this code RIGHT after the BODY tag:

//Elastic Trail script (By Philip Winston @ pwinston@yahoo.com, URL: http://www.geocities.com/pwinston/)

var nDots = 7;

var Xpos = 0;
var Ypos = 0;

// fixed time step, no relation to real time
var DELTAT = .01;
  // size of one spring in pixels
var SEGLEN = 10;
  // spring constant, stiffness of springs
var SPRINGK = 10;
  // all the physics is bogus, just picked stuff to
  // make it look okay
var MASS = 1;
// Positive XGRAVITY pulls right, negative pulls left
// Positive YGRAVITY pulls down, negative up
var XGRAVITY = 0;
var YGRAVITY = 50;
// RESISTANCE determines a slowing force proportional to velocity
var RESISTANCE = 10;
  // stopping criterea to prevent endless jittering
  // doesn't work when sitting on bottom since floor
  // doesn't push back so acceleration always as big
  // as gravity
var STOPVEL = 0.1;
var STOPACC = 0.1;
var DOTSIZE = 11;
  // BOUNCE is percent of velocity retained when 
  // bouncing off a wall
var BOUNCE = 0.75;

var isNetscape = navigator.appName=="Netscape";

// always on for now, could be played with to
  // let dots fall to botton, get thrown, etc.
var followmouse = true;

var dots = new Array();
init();

function startanimate() {	
    setInterval("animate()", 20);
}

// This is to line up the bullets with actual LI tags on the page
// Had to add -DOTSIZE to X and 2*DOTSIZE to Y for IE 5, not sure why
// Still doesn't work great
function setInitPositions(dots)
{
    // initialize dot positions to be on top 
    // of the bullets in the <ul>
    var startloc = document.all.tags("LI");
    var i = 0;
    for (i = 0; i < startloc.length && i < (nDots - 1); i++) {
        dots[i+1].X = startloc[i].offsetLeft
            startloc[i].offsetParent.offsetLeft - DOTSIZE;
        dots[i+1].Y = startloc[i].offsetTop +
            startloc[i].offsetParent.offsetTop + 2*DOTSIZE;
    }
    // put 0th dot above 1st (it is hidden)
    dots[0].X = dots[1].X;
    dots[0].Y = dots[1].Y - SEGLEN;
}

// just save mouse position for animate() to use
function MoveHandler(e)
{
    Xpos = e.pageX;
    Ypos = e.pageY;	  
    return true;
}

// just save mouse position for animate() to use
function MoveHandlerIE() {
    Xpos = window.event.x + document.body.scrollLeft;
    Ypos = window.event.y + document.body.scrollTop;	  
}

if (isNetscape) {
    document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);
    document.onMouseMove = MoveHandler;
} else {
    document.onmousemove = MoveHandlerIE;
}

function vec(X, Y)
{
    this.X = X;
    this.Y = Y;
}

// adds force in X and Y to spring for dot[i] on dot[j]
function springForce(i, j, spring)
{
    var dx = (dots[i].X - dots[j].X);
    var dy = (dots[i].Y - dots[j].Y);
    var len = Math.sqrt(dx*dx + dy*dy);
    if (len > SEGLEN) {
        var springF = SPRINGK * (len - SEGLEN);
        spring.X += (dx / len) * springF;
        spring.Y += (dy / len) * springF;
    }
}

// end code hiding -->
</script>