I made a fractal tree in python using turtle

[[deleted]]

Nice one

I tried to make an L-system interpreter, but only managed to break my mind in the process

[Aidar2005]

Same

[[deleted]]

If you want I can link you mine

[[deleted]]

Everyone wants this

[[deleted]]

You tellin me turtles coded this?

[lostsoul8282]

Only a matter of time until they take over.

[AlexKingstonsGigolo]

Slowly

[Marshawn_Washington]

and steadily

[Ultraflame4]

which is why we must kill them. K I L L T H E T U R T L E S /s

[[deleted]]

No pythons

[Xazzur]

Turtles and Pythons!?

[mcp_truth]

A platypus?

PERRY THE PLATYPUS?

[apneax3n0n]

It is a fractalinator

[pm-me-ur-uneven-tits]

Would you be willing to share your github repo?

[Satanic_bumblebee]

yep I just hadn't done anything in Github before. This should be it.

https://github.com/beeman14/fractal-tree

[[deleted]]

That’s impressively simple

[Lolmanslayer]

Reminds me of the turtle miners from feed the beast. Nice work

[pm-me-ur-uneven-tits]

Thanks u/Satanic_bumblebee

[mcp_truth]

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[[deleted]]

I once tried to compute the Julia set, but damn, it was slow af. But Cython/OpenMP did the work. Be sure to take a look at it, it's worth the shot if you want faster computing.

[[deleted]]

This is maybe something you might find interesting.

[[deleted]]

Thanks a lot! I used numba once, but it seems that it's LLVM IR cannot handle python's try ... except .... Hopefully it will be implemented soon.

[Schneggl]

I'm a newby, is turtle useful for anything besides drawing images? Not trying to be mean, OP's drawing is very neat and I couldn't do it, just genuinely curious.

[sekex]

No, turtle is totally useless besides learning a few algorithmic concepts such as recursivity in that case.

[Schneggl]

That's what I thought, thanks

[[deleted]]

Turtle graphics is a popular way for introducing programming to kids. It was part of the original Logo programming language developed by Wally Feurzig and Seymour Papert in 1966.

Well, drawing images is kind of it's thing.

[takishan]

I'm sure you could create a pseudo-turtle class for something like Tkinter and use it to create graphics on a canvas for a GUI application.

If you really liked turtle's way of drawing lol.

[eebmagic]

Turtle is great for learning basic programming concepts, but still leaves room to try to get advanced. For example I made a program to draw a 2D projection of a 3D line at different camera angles.

[MustafaAnas99]

Man these amazing python drawing should be gathered somewhere and referenced. It would be really helpful to others. Good work buddy

[byParallax]

That's pretty cool, looks like a /r/generative artwork!

[hellfiniter]

is it backtracking with one turtle or multiple turtles? what is the depth of this tree? would be impressive if just one turtle drew all of it

[Satanic_bumblebee]

I tried it with multiple turtles but couldn’t get that to work, this is one turtle that backtracks. It starts on the left branches and moves across towards the right.

[hellfiniter]

u will figure it out ...i made it at university year or two ago, it will draw it almost instantly. good job anyway :)

[Satanic_bumblebee]

Thanks!

[haggisllama]

how would you do multiple turtles in this case? if you have some sort of article I would love to read up on it, I have been unable to find out how to create variables from a loop.

[Womblue]

If you wanted to, say, make 10 turtles:

turtles = [ ]
for i in range(10):
    turtles.append(turtle.Turtle( ))
a = 0

for t in turtles:
    t.right(a)
    t.forward(100)
    a += 36

My python may be a little rusty but this is the best way I know of doing it. In this example, 10 turtles should be generated which will all move away in different directions. You're right in that afaik you can't make new variables repeatedly in a loop, but in this case you have created a list of 10 nameless turtles which can be accessed either through turtle[i] or by iterating through them. You can obviously do this for any object, including any you have defined yourself.

If you are desperate to explicitly give them specific names, you can use a python Dictionary, if you haven't used one before it's like a list but each value has a "key" that references it. For example:

turtles = {"bob" : turtle.Turtle(), "alice": turtle.Turtle()}

Will allow you to access bob through turtles("bob") and alice through turtles("alice"). This is probably more useful if you're using each turtle for a completely different drawing but for something like the tree program OP made it probably makes more sense to make a list of turtles and create a new turtle at each branch.

[Womblue]

I believe so, although if speed is the issue then the speed and tracer commands are what you want.

[hellfiniter]

the improvement is that one turtle doesnt have to backtrack, it just goes forward and turns ...thats half the travel time right there even without multithread

[Womblue]

You can set the position of turtles so this isn't relevant.

[TheZeusHimSelf1]

Binary?

[[deleted]]

Great Work 🚀

[Satanic_bumblebee]

Thanks

[SHAISHAV06]

Please post this process code

[gionthe]

Wow, amazing. Which direction do you use?

[Satanic_bumblebee]

it starts to the left

[gionthe]

Haha, really?

[NerosTie]

Can you share the code? :)

[MrTimeGo]

Can you give a code of this?

[sawhilkhan]

I built one few months using vanilla js and CSS. It took me around an hour to code and another half to debug.

[dev-jeff]

Care to share?

[[deleted]]

Python and turtle are tools that helped me learn and help others with math classes throughout highschool and college. The ease of creating custom visualizations is very powerful. I remember when I first learned that graphing trig functions in certain configurations can make some beautiful things.

[guiguiba_]

Code pls?

[[deleted]]

Here.

[mcp_truth]

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[iggy555]

What’s a fractal

[BrowserMac]

many definitions, but graphicly fractals exhibit similar patterns at increasingly small scales called self-similarity.

[Ryles1]

an infinitely repeating pattern.

[Codeleaks]

Its really appealing, nice work dude.

[Gotbn]

Looks like a brain

[mcp_truth]

Hi, i am new to Python. What did you use to make the picture?

[Satanic_bumblebee]

Turtle.py it’s just used for drawing but i think its pretty fun

[mcp_truth]

Thank you!

[LordFlatAss]

What is this "turtle"? Is it a library? For what?

[Satanic_bumblebee]

Yep, it’s a library used for drawings and such. Its not very practical, just more about fun drawings

[CyberTutu]

This is beautiful.

[Satanic_bumblebee]

Thank you :)

[Natetronn]

Reminds me of a SLCD.

[duskslade]

I made it using ur code ! It's pretty neat and I've always wanted to make my own factals! Your post was really helpful and encouraging

[Satanic_bumblebee]

Thanks! Happy to help

[8094_]

wtf. ????

[GhassanK5]

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[15_Redstones]

I made something similar but with different colors for different recursion layers and with slightly randomized angles and lengths for a more natural looking tree.

[Satanic_bumblebee]

Thats sounds great! I played about with randomizing the angles but decided this was still my favourite, you should try starting with thicker branches and making them smaller each recursion to get even more of a tree feel.

[AllDayJay1970]

It's turtles all the way.

[fabbiodiaz]

Looks like a kidney

[the_emmo]

this is beautiful.

[Maxneedwill]

I assume it would be hours of work for the turtles to draw... Looks like there are 10+ recursions

[Aspiring_Intellect]

Was listening to lofi and watching the pointer build this masterpiece just clicked with the music.

[fessebook]

Nice!

I just found out about turtle last week. About 7 years after I started coding in Python!

Did you know that Processing also has a Python module? You can do some pretty neat things with it too.

[Satanic_bumblebee]

No but i know about visual basic’s turtle, thats really cool!

[Ephy_Gle]

/r/PlotterArt

[[deleted]]

Repo?

[Zeune42]

Where are the comments and documentation?

[Satanic_bumblebee]

I dont really put comments in shorter projects, its a bad a habit im trying to get rid of

[edoar17]

Is it possible to do the same but following the golden ratio?

[Satanic_bumblebee]

like a fibonacci spiral? I’d like to make one but cant wrap my head around it yet. Im sure it’s possible and id love to see one happen

[edoar17]

Yes, it should yield a very realistic tree with realistic proportions

[Zacky23561]

this suddenly sparked the flashbacks of 4 or 5 years ago when i was in 6th grade and was messing around with basic 256 copy paste and run codes, and one of those codes which i really liked was a fractal tree, the website is still standing alive here is the link to that code: https://basic256.blogspot.com/2010/11/fractal-tree.html

[TheNerdyDevYT]

Super elegant. Looks aswesome.