Walter's Turtle Blocks already saves as SVG, and it's written in Python.
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Kirby Urner <kur...@oreillyschool.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Jeff Elkner <j...@elkner.net> wrote: >> >> Lee, if you are looking for a classroom teacher to try out pyguin in >> the classroom, sign me up! I'll have it installed in my lab on >> Thursday, when I return, in any case. It rocks! >> >> Now a question: how difficult would it be to get pyguin to output svg >> images? >> >> Jeff Elkner > > > Jeff's notion that one should be able to save at least some turtle art as > SVG files seems brilliant to me. > > Unless I'm mistaken, most turtles simply change the state of a bitmapped > canvas and have trouble even reading single pixels after that (e.g. what > color is 300,201 -- not easy to know). > > Moving to SVG would be like moving to Postscript for output. Non-trivial. > > I agree with Jeff, one could develop an application wherein turtles to add > to an SVG file under the hood, allowing output that scales. > > On Googling, I found this project that was (is?) moving in that direction: > > http://codeboje.de/pysvg-meets-trundle-turle/ > > Kirby > > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
