Planar Symmetry with Turtles

Year: 2007 Authors: James Dean Palmer

Core claim

Extending Logo turtles to operate within wallpaper group cells gives students an accessible way to understand planar symmetry and transformation mechanics.

Topics

planar symmetry, wallpaper groups, Logo programming, computer graphics, transformations

Domains

isometry, congruence transformations, Euclidean plane, group theory, geometric abstract art, symmetric design, computer-generated pattern, Escher-inspired imagery

Methods

Logo turtle programming, student programming exercise, cell structure diagrams, symmetric wrapper functions

Media

Logo, computer display, turtle graphics, wallpaper group cells

Source status

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