Category: Intermediate

This Python + Pygame program draws the trace of 4 decaying sine waves, 2 per axis, with rainbow colours. It… read more Spectral Harmonographs

The Tower of Hanoi is a classic problem that lends itself well to a recursive solution. The story involves some… read more Animated Tower of Hanoi

Lindenmayer systems, or L-systems, provide a very powerful way to construct fractals. Lindenmayer used L-systems to describe the behaviour of… read more Drawing Fractals with Lindenmayer Systems

Often seen in science museums, the harmonograph is a device that combines wave motions (e.g. from some pendulums) to move… read more Extensible Harmonograph

This is a fun little program to generate ‘computer music’, specifically ‘bytebeats’ which sound like the chip music featured in the early… read more Make ‘Computer Music’ with a very small program!

This program draws a ‘tree’ by drawing a trunk (initially; later it’s a branch) and appending a tree, recursively. Uses… read more Fractal Tree