Simple Pen Pyramid - 3D (.. well it was simple initially, but it got more complex ..) Pen Banana draws Circles, this project draws Lines Click the Flag to draw a 3D Pyramid, after which ... If you move the mouse near the bottom of the screen, you can change the following settings: - #Layers (1 - 21) = the number of layers drawn - Length delta (9 - 13) = side-length decrease per layer - Colour (0 - 100) = Any colour - Saturation% (0 - 100) - % saturation of all lines - Side br% (40 - 95) = % brightness of a layer's side - Top br% (50 - 100) = % brightness of a layer's top Note: the Top is meant to be brighter than the Side Just click the Flag again to see your new Pyramid ** Minor update April 2023 - Code to draw the middle shading to make it look like a corner, has been updated to draw a line at all 3 visible corners, to make them look more like solid sandstone blocks. ** For a cleaner rendition use the Turbowarp HQ Pen - https://turbowarp.org/809612038/fullscreen?hqpen
Created by @gregatku for use in Coding Classes for Kids Unlimited, for whom I work as a Coding teacher. Simple lesson to teach kids how to use the Scratch Pen, via a series of lines of varying colour, size, saturation & brightness, in this case a 3D Pyramid. After they've learned enough of the techniques, they will be required to make it draw something different and creative of their own. In the more complex Pen Banana exercise we used mostly circles, this project teaches them a different technique using mostly lines. The student exercise will be a simpler version of this. The X & Y variables (set by a stage click) are shown while we build up the image, so it is easy to work out where we need to "go to" to draw something, just by clicking there. They were hidden once the project was completed.
