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Galleries

Play with Turtle Art to draw colorful art patterns using a turtle that accepts instructions for movement.

With visual programming blocks, you can snap together programs by compiling (combining) them in ways to create anything you can imagine.

Graphics

Media

my elder cousin
putting images on a map

Maths

$prime factors$

prime factors
$snowflake$

snowflake
$tree$

tree
Using Turtle Art for pie charts
Calculating the hypotenuse and approximating the angle of a right triangle
Stepping through the program is a nice way to visualize the process of approximation
The final result of the approximation. Pythagoras
And on-the-fly function definitions
Currency (using File:US-currency.tar.gz)
Currency including coins (using File:Oz-currency.tar.gz)
graph paper (jelkner)
unit circle (jboisture)

A clock activity

Tony Forster describes his "adventures" with on-the-fly definitions to create an analog clock in his blog.

Try any of the time or math library functions, e.g.,

localtime().tm_min

sin(x) + sin(pi/2)

Sensors

Turtle Art supports sensor input:

Using a Hall-effect sensor, you can build a bike odometer in Turtle Art
sound paint Capturing mouse events and using audio to set the pen width
Reading data from multiple sensors (XO hardware only)
love speaks volumes A heart that beats according to sensor input

More ideas for sensors [[2]] [[3]]

Games

Turtle Art can be used to write games, such as a simple falling block game:

Presentations

Student work

Students from Caacupé have been sending me examples of their work:

Eduado Fabian Ayala Vargas
Johana Soeli Aquino
Ivan Silva
Rodrigo Nicolas Valdéz Bobadilla
Juan Pablo Espinola Carballo
Miguela

Just for fun

Q: How do I cast keyboard input to a string? A: Use chr().

Turtle Art Day 2013

More features

Cartesian and polar coordinate grids
Collapsible stack
Collapsed stack
Python function with one, two, or three variables
Expandable bullet list (two bullets)
Expandable bullet list (four bullets)
Enlarged blocks
Shrunken blocks
SVG output using the save SVG block
Multi-variable Python blocks
Turtle 'sees'

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 <gallery>
-File:TA-sample1.png
+File:TA-appspot.png|http://turtleartsite.appspot.com
-File:TA-sample2.png
+File:TA-org.png|http://turtleart.org
-File:TA-sample3.png
-File:TA-sample4.png
-File:TA-sample5.png
-File:TA-sample6.png
 </gallery>
-===maths===
+{{:Activities/Turtle Art/Gallery}}
-<gallery>
-File:TAclock1.png|A clock activity
-File:TAclock2.png
-File:TAclock3.png
-File:TAclock4.png
-File:TAgeometry.png|Calculating the hypotenuse and approximating the angle of a right triangle
-File:TAgeometry1.png|Stepping through the program is a nice way to visualize the process of approximation
-File:TAgeometry2.png|The final result of the approximation.
-File:Sine.png|And on-the-fly function definitions
-</gallery>
-Tony Forster describes his "adventures" with on-the-fly definitions to create an [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fTmGyLerUL4/SY0URR-P7TI/AAAAAAAAAN4/XySQUPHmiME/s1600-h/clockface.jpg analog clock] in [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-insert-function-block-in.html his blog.]
-Try any of the [http://docs.python.org/library/time.html time] or [http://docs.python.org/library/math.html math] library functions, e.g.,
- localtime().tm_min
- sin(x) + sin(pi/2)
-===presentations===
-<gallery>
-File:Portfolio14.png
-File:Portfolio13.png
-</gallery>
-===games===
-Turtle Art can be used to write games, such as a simple falling block game:
-<gallery>
-File:WeGotGame.png
-File:Hot-cold.png
-File:Yes-no.png
-File:State-game.png
-File:Boston-game.png
-File:Continent-game.png
-File:Gardner-school.png
-File:Shapes-game.png
-</gallery>
-===sensors===
-Turtle Art supports sensor input:
-<gallery>
-File:Bike odometer.png|Using a Hall-effect sensor, you can build a bike odometer in Turtle Art
-</gallery>
-More ideas for sensors [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors]]
-[[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Uso_de_TortugaArte_Sensores]]
-===student work===
-Students from Caacupé have been sending me examples of their work:
-<gallery>
-File:Mi bici.png|Eduado Fabian Ayala Vargas
-File:TmpNW2JGh.png|Johana Soeli Aquino
-File:Circulo colores.png|Ivan Silva
-File:Tmp4FAsHi.png|Rodrigo Nicolas Valdéz Bobadilla
-File:Captura pantalla de Actividad TortugArte.png|Juan Pablo Espinola Carballo
-File:Flora.png|Miguela
-</gallery>
-===Just for fun===
-<gallery>
-File:Galapagos.png|my elder cousin
-File:Hot-cold.png|[http://www.dailymotion.com/user/sugarlabs/video/x9dsjf_hotcold-game_creation (video)]
-File:State-game.png|[http://www.dailymotion.com/user/sugarlabs/video/x9xz9o_stategame_tech (video)]
-File:Pie1.png
-File:Pie2.png|[http://5toescuela3.blogspot.com/2009/07/actividades-para-sugar.html Using Turtle Art for pie charts]
-File:Keyboard.png|Q: How do I cast keyboard input to a string? A: Use chr().
-File:Explicit_approach.png
-File:Approximation_approach.png
-File:100_turtles.png
-File:RFID.png
-File:TurtleTrees.png
-</gallery>
-=== Recent features ===
-<gallery>
-File:Coordinates.png|Cartesian and polar coordinate grids
-File:Collapsible.png|Collapsible stack
-File:Collapsed.png|Collapsed stack
-File:Python-expandable.png|Python function with one, two, or three variables
-File:Bullets-two.png|Expandable bullet list (two bullets)
-File:Bullets-four.png|Expandable bullet list (four bullets)
-File:Large-blocks.png|Enlarged blocks
-File:Small-blocks.png|Shrunken blocks
-File:100Turtles.png|100 Turtles
-File:TA-savesvg.svg|SVG output using the save SVG block
-File:TA-multivariable.png|Multi-variable Python blocks
-File:TAMaze.png|Turtle 'sees'
-</gallery>