Unlimited Sprites Demo Effect by luis2048.

An infinate number of sprites drawn to screen. It's basically a flick-book effect; you draw the same sprite in different positions on different bufffer 'screens' and flip between them. When you've drawn on all frames, you loop back to the beginning and repeat.

PGraphics[] spriteFrames = new PGraphics[6];
PImage sprite;

float x, y;
float xang = 0.0;
float yang = 0.0;
int surf = 0;

void setup() {
  size(640, 360);
  noSmooth();
  background(0);
  
  // Create sprite
  sprite=loadImage("Aqua-Ball-48x48.png");

  // Create blank surfaces to draw on
  for (int i = 0; i < spriteFrames.length; i++)  {
    spriteFrames[i] = createGraphics(width, height, JAVA2D);
  }   
}

void draw()
{
  background(0);
  
  // Get X, Y positions
  x = (width/2)*sin((radians(xang))*0.95);
  y = (height/2)*cos((radians(yang))*0.97);

  // Inc the angle of the sine
  xang += 1.17;
  yang += 1.39;

  // Blit our 'bob' on the 'active' surface
  spriteFrames[surf].beginDraw();
  spriteFrames[surf].image(sprite, x+(width/2)-32, y+(height/2)-32);
  spriteFrames[surf].endDraw();            

  // Blit the active surface to the screen
  image(spriteFrames[surf], 0, 0, width, height);

  // Inc the active surface number
  surf = (surf+1) % spriteFrames.length;

  // Display the results
  //image(spriteEffect, 0, 0, width, height); 
}