Category: Basic
Stars and Stripes
A variation on the Stars and Stripes American Flag for Independence Day. It’s an exercise in the use of transparency in Pygame. The stripes are made transparent so the stars image behind shows through.…
Easy Graph Plotting with Pyplot
Graphs (also known as charts) are an indispensible visual aid for conveying a lot of data in an easy-to-digest form. Everyone is familiar with graphs in everyday life, such as those showing trends over time, e.g. world population, global …
Random Walk
A colourful random walk. The basic idea is very simple: choose a random heading in the range 0:360 degrees. Step in that direction. Choose another random heading & step again. Do this 2,000 times. As a bonus, we go through …
Sierpinski Triangle, drawn by a Turtle
This is a classic fractal drawn with a recursion algorithm and Turtle graphics. The Sierpinski Triangle’s sides are bisected and the triangle they form is removed. The procedure is then applied to the 3 remaining triangles, and to them recursively …
Naive Mandelbrot Set
This is your basic Mandelbrot Set plotter. Very little effort made to speed it up, except for plotting top & bottom pixels together as they’re mirrored across the x-axis. Later I’ll show you some much faster programs!
The heart of …