OOPS!

Thanks Ashutosh for the math. Play with the code! Make sure to remove the comment tag at /*the beginning and at the end */ which I had to add to prevent blogger from nagging!

/*int NO_OF_CIRCLES = 10;

float[] theta = new float[NO_OF_CIRCLES];

float[] deltaTheta = new float[NO_OF_CIRCLES];

float [][] nextXY = new float[NO_OF_CIRCLES][NO_OF_CIRCLES] ;

//int [][][] colorOFCIRCLE = new int [NO_OF_CIRCLES][NO_OF_CIRCLES][NO_OF_CIRCLES] ;

color[] colors = new color[NO_OF_CIRCLES] ;

void setup()

{

size(400,400);

//setup first case then the rest

theta[0] = 0 ;

for (int i = 1 ; i <>

theta[i] = theta[i-1] + 15 ;

//setup first case then the rest

deltaTheta[0] = 0.01 ;

for (int i = 1 ; i <>

deltaTheta[i] = deltaTheta[i-1] + 0.05;

//offseting individual circle translations. Could be time based or random

deltaTheta[1] = 0.07;

deltaTheta[2] = 0.09;

deltaTheta[3] = 0.05;

deltaTheta[4] = -0.04;

deltaTheta[5] = 0.03;

deltaTheta[6] = -0.06;

deltaTheta[7] = 0.01;

deltaTheta[8] = -0.08;

//assign random colors to all circles

color c1 = color(102, 102, 0);

for (int i = 1 ; i <>

{

colors[i] = color(random(255),random(255),random(255), 125) ;

}

}

void draw()

{

float siz = random(255);

background(0);

nextXY[0][0] = 200; //mouseX;

nextXY[0][1] = 200; //mouseY;

smooth();

noStroke();

fill(0,0,255,126);

//draw first circle

ellipse(nextXY[0][0], nextXY[0][1], 60, 60); // Gray ellipse

theta[0] += deltaTheta[0] ;

//now draw the rest

for (int i = 1; i <>

{

fill((color)colors[i]) ;

nextXY[i][0] = nextXY[i-1][0] + 60 * cos(theta[i-1]) ;

nextXY[i][1] = nextXY[i-1][1] + 60 * sin(theta[i-1]) ;

ellipse(nextXY[i][0], nextXY[i][1], 60, 60);

theta[i] += deltaTheta[i] ;

}

try{

Thread.currentThread().sleep(10);

}catch (InterruptedException ie) {}

}