Pen Pyramid Set Up (skeleton code missing most of the drawing blocks - specifically as a starting point for my students. The completed project is Simple Pen Pyramid - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/809612038/ ) Pen Banana draws Circles, this project will draw 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 - 22) = the number of layers drawn - Length delta (8 - 14) = 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
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 are hidden once the project is completed.
