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.…
A Fake Circle made of Straight Lines
Inspired by this post on Reddit, I wrote this little script to do the same thing. The circle is an illusion created by 100 straight-line tangents to an invisible circle. The tangents are created by drawing a chord in a …
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 …
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 …