[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 116, Issue 4

Jeff Elkner jeff at elkner.net
Sun Mar 17 22:00:01 CET 2013


Walter's Turtle Blocks already saves as SVG, and it's written in Python.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Kirby Urner <kurner at oreillyschool.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>>
>> Lee, if you are looking for a classroom teacher to try out pyguin in
>> the classroom, sign me up!  I'll have it installed in my lab on
>> Thursday, when I return, in any case.  It rocks!
>>
>> Now a question:  how difficult would it be to get pyguin to output svg
>> images?
>>
>> Jeff Elkner
>
>
> Jeff's notion that one should be able to save at least some turtle art as
> SVG files seems brilliant to me.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, most turtles simply change the state of a bitmapped
> canvas and have trouble even reading single pixels after that (e.g. what
> color is 300,201 -- not easy to know).
>
> Moving to SVG would be like moving to Postscript for output. Non-trivial.
>
> I agree with Jeff, one could develop an application wherein turtles to add
> to an SVG file under the hood, allowing output that scales.
>
> On Googling, I found this project that was (is?) moving in that direction:
>
> http://codeboje.de/pysvg-meets-trundle-turle/
>
> Kirby
>
>
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