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Flag drawing with Turtle

28 Dec 2018 Yep, drawing the Flag of Wales using Turtle :P One of the first units I ever took at UWA was CITS1200 - Java programming. There was this fairly basic lab task involving drawing flags using a limited set of drawing commands.

If I recall correctly, you were only allowed to use drawLine, so you had to implement your own methods to draw more complex shapes like circles or arcs. I don’t think I bothered much with the exercise itself because no marks were on the line, but I did have an idea - what if we could write a parser to interpret an SVG as a bunch of Turtle drawing commands? Flag of the Western European Union A few modifications required on this one - avoiding elliptical arcs, plus because fill rules aren’t supported, an additional path had to be added to ‘hollow out’ the O.

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