The atan2() function calculates the angle between two positions. The angle it calculates can be used to rotate a shape toward something. In this example, the eyes rotate to look at the cursor.
Contributors: Malay Vasa, Kenneth Lim, Miriam Nadler, Alex Yixuan Xu, Animesh Sinha, Katie, Caleb Foss, Darren Kessner
Modified from Arctangent.
Originally ported from the Processing example Arctangent.
Aim is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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