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Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide: Second Edition

By : Michael Badger
Book Image

Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide: Second Edition

By: Michael Badger

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Turning Geometric Patterns into Art Using the Pen Tool

Feeling artistic? Don't worry if you're not. This is art that anyone can do. We'll make the sprite do all the hard work.

As we work our way through the chapter, we'll be programmatically creating designs in Scratch by giving the sprite a precise pattern of movements to follow. At the end of this chapter, we'll have created a shapes drawing project, a color finder application, and some string art.

These projects will have a place on their own and can be quite addictive to experiment with. However, they are highly applicable to the work we've done through the first eight chapters. These art projects, or animations, can be used in a variety of places including when the player loses in Breakout, to draw stars on a card, or as level and scene transitions.

In this chapter, we will draw on many of the concepts we've learned so far in addition to the following:

  • Exploring the pen blocks to draw basic and user-defined polygons

  • Capturing...