Sine wave from bash.

Did a few articles on math. Here is a sine wave in bash.

#!/bin/bash
# plotsine.sh
# A DEMO to display a sinewave inside a standard bash terminal.
# default bash terminal.
# Use variables so that you can see how it works.
angle=0
step_angle=5
vert_plot=0
horiz_plot=5
centreline=12
amplitude=11
PI=3.14159
clear
# Do a single cycle, quantised graph.
while [ $angle -le 359 ]
do
 # Create each floating point value...
 # CygWin now catered for... ;o)
 vert_plot=$(awk "BEGIN{ printf \"%.12f\", ((sin($angle*($PI/180))*$amplitude)+$centreline)}")
 #vert_plot=$(bc -l <<< "{print ((s($angle*($PI/180))*$amplitude)+$centreline)}")
 # Truncate the floating point value to an integer then invert the plot to suit the x y co-ordinates inside a terminal...
 vert_plot=$((24-${vert_plot/.*}))
 # Plot the point(s) and print the angle at that point...
 printf "\x1B["$vert_plot";"$horiz_plot"f*"
 printf "\x1B[22;1fAngle is $angle degrees..."
 sleep 0.1
 # Increment values...
 angle=$((angle+step_angle))
 horiz_plot=$((horiz_plot+1))
done
printf "\x1B[23;1fSinewave plotted as a quantised text mode graph.\n"
exit 0

Note: you can change the wave type modifying the wave type. For example:
from:

vert_plot=$(awk "BEGIN{ printf \"%.12f\", ((sin($angle*($PI/180))*$amplitude)+$centreline)}")

to:

 
vert_plot=$(awk "BEGIN{ printf \"%.12f\", ((cos($angle*($PI/180))*$amplitude)+$centreline)}")