Re: LOGO-L> Re: Total Turtle Trip

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

Mike Doyle wrote:
> 
> In-Reply-To: <v03007808b074865622f3@[139.132.40.201]>
> John Gough <jugh@deakin.edu.au> wrote in reply to my comments on Turtle
> Circles that:
> 
> > Keep in mind that Logo can handle turtle steps and turtle turns that are
> > tiny, regardless of the actual pixel-clumsiness of the resulting
> > graphics.
> 
> > What about this? It's not non-standardly infinitesimal, but how small
> > can your brain go?
> 
> > to smooth.poly
> > repeat 36000000 [fd 1 rt 0.00001]
> > end
> 

You'd also introduce more errors than your trying to remove.
You've effectively multiplied your error by 100000. The last
segent has accumulated 36000000 small errors.

By the way I think you meant

repeat 36000000 [fd 0.00001 rt 0.00001]

Or else you meant one heck of big circle.

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