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I have changed an algorithm and added a feature to change a depth of the curve.
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Anyway, I hope you learned all you wanted to know about dragon curves. I find it incredible that such a complex image could come from such a simple task-folding paper. If you have any questions that you want answered, any thing that I got wrong or left out entirely or just interesting things about the dragon curve, reply to this comment or any of my other comments below. Thanks for reading and Scratch On!
Sorry about the interruptions. (Bad letter limit! Bad!) Anyway, as I was saying... As well as being fractals, dragon curves are also tessellators (if that's a word...) and characters in a book (kind of). See ngmr's project Dragon Tiling for an example on dragon tessellating. As for books, the book Jaws (NOT the movie) has, at the beginning of each part, a picture of an increasingly complex dragon curve, as well as a message from a fictional character whose name I forgot. Look up for the end.
Sorry, but the book mentioned in the above comment is supposed to be Jurassic Park, not Jaws.
Here we go. As you probably know, the maximum number of times you can fold a piece of piece of paper is 7 or so. So, folding a piece of paper would not make a very good depiction of the dragon curve. Thank goodness for computers! This project follows a set of rules to determine what direction to face, how many steps to move and how long to keep doing all that. But don't think that's all to know about dragon curves. Sorry, but my comment is getting too long again. Keep reading for the end. Bye!
A dragon curve is simple, actually. The way I think of it being formed is this: When you fold a piece of paper in half, open it and make all the folds at an angle of 90°, the shape corresponds to the first iteration (repetition) of the dragon curve. If you took another piece of paper and repeated the above steps, except with two folds instead of one, you would end up with iteration #2 of the dragon curve. Sorry, but I am running out of room here, so I will finish this in another comment. Bye!
Well, you have to realize that the program probably is going through quite a bit of math between each step. Speacking of which, could you give us an explanation of what a dragon curve is?
Hey _Dragon_MC_, I know that I am not the user who made this project, but I happend to know quite a bit about the dragon curve. Feel free to take a look at the four (yes, FOUR) comments above to see my not-so-brief briefing on the dragon curve.
i agree with jkingshooter...its a little show...
its a little slow...
Heh, that's a cool project you've made.
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