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Raspberry Pi By Example

By : Arush Kakkar
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Raspberry Pi By Example

By: Arush Kakkar

Overview of this book

Want to put your Raspberry Pi through its paces right out of the box? This tutorial guide is designed to get you learning all the tricks of the Raspberry Pi through building complete, hands-on hardware projects. Speed through the basics and then dive right in to development! Discover that you can do almost anything with your Raspberry Pi with a taste of almost everything. Get started with Pi Gaming as you learn how to set up Minecraft, and then program your own game with the help of Pygame. Turn the Pi into your own home security system with complete guidance on setting up a webcam spy camera and OpenCV computer vision for image recognition capabilities. Get to grips with GPIO programming to make a Pi-based glowing LED system, build a complete functioning motion tracker, and more. Finally, get ready to tackle projects that push your Pi to its limits. Construct a complete Internet of Things home automation system with the Raspberry Pi to control your house via Twitter; turn your Pi into a super-computer through linking multiple boards into a cluster and then add in advanced network capabilities for super speedy processing!
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Raspberry Pi By Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Drawing a binary fractal tree


A binary fractal tree is defined recursively by binary branching. Typically, it consists of a trunk of length 1, which splits into two branches of decreasing or equal length, each of which makes an angle Q with the direction of the trunk. Furthermore, both of these branches are divided into two branches, each making an angle Q with the direction of its parent branch, and so on. Continuing in this way, we can infinitely make branches, and the collective diagram is called a fractal tree. The following diagram visually shows what such a fractal tree might look like:

Now, let's move on to the code and take a look at how such a fractal tree can be constructed with PyGame. Following this paragraph is the complete code, and we will go through it statement by statement in further paragraphs:

import pygame
import math
import random
import time

width = 800
height = 600

pygame.init()
window = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
pygame.display.set_caption("Fractal...