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Circles and Lines

Up to now the patterns have involved drawing a line from a single point. This program is about exploring the turtle moving forward drawing a circle or polygon, while at each step drawing a perpendicular line before moving forward again. Once you have a function that draws the pattern, you can use it in different ways. The final variant explores the use of random numbers to generate the perpendicular lines.

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Stitched image showing the pattern on felt

animation showing how the pattern is created
pattern as it appears on the TurtleStitch website variant 1 of the pattern
variant 2 of the pattern variant 3 of the circles and lines pattern