4 Building a rainbow

This is a very simple example of building a rainbow inspired by the RaspberryJuice.¹ In this example, we’ll build a rainbow near current player and immediately watch the rainbow.

4.1 Build rainbow with R graphics

First, you’ll need to draw a rainbow with R Base plot system.

Generate a rainbow data
Prepare rainbow colors
Draw a rainbow with R Base plot

It is possible to draw a rainbow with other R plot system like ggplot2.

# 1. Rainbow plot --------------------------------------------
## 1.1. Rainbow Data
x <- seq(1,128,1)
y <- sin((x / 128.0) * pi)

## 1.2. Rainbow Color
n <- 7
color <- rainbow(n, s = 1, v = 1, start = 0, end = max(1, n - 1)/n, alpha = 1)

## 1.3. Draw Rainbow with Base Plot System

plot(x, y, type="n", ylim = c(0,10))
for(i in 1:7) {
  lines(x, y+i, col=color[i])
}

4.2 Minecraft Rainbow

To build a rainbow on the Minecraft world, we will take the following steps;

Get the current player position with getPlayerPos() function.
Configure rainbow height, colors, and item.
Build a rainbow referring to current player location and configured items.
Finally, watch the rainbow a little far from the current player position.

## 2.1. Current Player Position
cur_pos <- getPlayerPos()

## 2.2. Rainbow Configuration

height <- 50
colors  <- c(14, 1, 4, 5, 3, 11, 10)

blue_block <- find_item("Blue Wool")

## 2.3. Build a Rainbow

for (x in 1:128){
  for (color in seq_along(colors)) {
    y  <- sin((x / 128.0) * pi) * height + color
    setBlock(cur_pos[1] + x - 64, cur_pos[2] + y, cur_pos[3], blue_block[2], colors[color])
  }
}

## 2.4. Watch a Rainbow

setPlayerPos(cur_pos[1], cur_pos[2], cur_pos[3]-50, tile=TRUE)

The result looks like this:

RaspberryJuice ↩︎