Hey guys, Hopefully one of you can help me! I'm trying to do this thing in Python where I have to draw a snowman using Turtle Graphics but I have to draw it without using the circle function!:***: Programming isn't my forte, and so needless to say, I'm super frustrated. I have no idea where to start and nothing I've tried has worked. The snowman has to be made of three circles. I'm not asking for you to post the code for me, but if you could just point me in a direction, that'd be lovely! :bang::bang::tantrum: Thanks! theMaverick
I'm a CS major, but unfortunately Python isn't required for my degree, so we primarily code in Java/HTML/CSS. Anyways, I find stack overflow to be an excellent resource for things like this, and I found this link that might really help you: how to use python turtle to make circles wtihout the circle function - Stack Overflow
I hate stack overflow. What functions can you use? If you're allowed to use points, then draw a circle with the points. If you're allowed to draw with lines, draw the circle with lines. Drawing a circle with points: Circle is a point and a radius. Color the point if it is a distance between (r-dr) and (r+dr) from the center of the circle. (Where r is the radius of the circle, dr is a small threshold value, like one pixel, and distance is calculated using the point distance formula. Note that you don't have to take the square root.) Drawing a circle with lines: Pick an arbitrary point on or near the perimeter of the circle, and a small angle dt. Move about the circle through an angle dt, and draw the endpoint of that line segment. Take the end point as the start of the next line segment. Move through another angle dt. Draw the next endpoint. Etc. Loop from 0 <= dt <= 2pi. (Possible optimization: loop from 0 <= dt <= pi, drawing half the circle, and then reflect the points about the center of the circle and whatever the line was.)
