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Dragon Curves An in-depth article discussing Dragon Curves, their mathematical interpretation, and drawing techniques using Turtle Graphics.
PicoTurtle release - v0.2.0-alpha.4

The tenth weekly release PicoTurtle v0.2.0-alpha.4 of PicoTurtle is out.

This release features a couple of important editor features:

  1. Indent/De-indent code lines and blocks. Editor shortcuts are Ctrl+] and Ctr+[ respectively. One can also indent and de-indent using Tab and Shift-Tab.
  2. Toggle comment code lines and blocks using Ctrl+/.

Here's a screenshot of the application on my macbook air...

alt PicoTurtle 0.2.0 on MacOs

The windows installer can be downloaded here -> PicoTurtle v0.2.0-alpha.4 for Win/64-bit. Linux and Macos installers are still work in progress. Macos is turning out to especially difficult with my current CMake/vcpkg based …

PicoTurtle release - v0.1.0-alpha.5

A new source-only release PicoTurtle v0.1.0-alpha.5 of PicoTurtle is out. This release has minor bug fixes, better documentation and an improved docs viewer, and a new about dialog. The release page contains detailed release notes.

Few changes in the CMake build to support a windows installer are added to the release. These will be used to publish a binary installer for Windows starting next release.

PicoTurtle release - v0.1.0-alpha.4

A new source-only release PicoTurtle v0.1.0-alpha.4 of PicoTurtle is out. The release page contains detailed release notes. However here are a few highlights:

  1. Turtle Lua Console - allowing turtle run in an interactive lua console widget. This is similar to the browser developer console functionality - although with fewer features.
  2. Find/replace - is enabled in the Turtle Lua editor.
  3. LUA_PATH - The path of the currently run lua file is added to the LUA_PATH.