Re: LOGO-L> Re: Total Turtle Trip

[Jeff <jeffr@mugc.cc.monash.edu.au>]

pu repeat n[fd d pd pu bk d lt 360/n] for n -> oo

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Mike Doyle wrote:

> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.971026201028.11068B-100000@mugca.cc.monash.edu.au>-
> 
> Jeff Richardson <jeffr@mugc.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > Then try the concept of the infinitesimal. "Drawing' hasn't really got 
> > anything to do with this, a circle is an idea...
> 
> A procedural description of a circle in Turtle geometry is the description 
> of a sequence of actions. When using a computer, the 'circle' ceases to be 
> an idea and becomes the description of a process. 
> 
> Put simply, however small or large the inputs to:
> 
> repeat :N [forward :S right 360/:N] 
> 
> the expression remains that of a polygon and does not metamorphose into a 
> description of a circle. Please, the words in the language *are* 
> important, whatever the ideas of infinitesimal mathematics might allow our 
> minds to think.  
> 
> Michael Doyle (aka Micheal O Duill)
> 37 Bright Street
> SKIPTON BD23 1QQ UK
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> Email: mikedoyle@cix.co.uk
> 
> 
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