Kochs Snowflake

I did a fractal today called Kochs Snowflake.

I was inspired by this guy.
https://www.facebook.com/snowart8848
I'm going to try to duplicate some of his drawings on the white board.

Swirls and Stars

I digitized on of my wife's quilting patterns. It came out kind of jagged. I am thinking of adding an SD card interface to the Arduino to do more complicated pictures smoother.

finally figured this one out

I went back and figured out how to do this picture that I had done when this was just an extension of a desktop. now I got it to work with the arduino. I had to do it in two steps. first one program writes the xy data points to the EEPROM memory. then another program reads them and plots them.

a smaller size pen highlights errors in the system

I need to find the 2.5 mm round point markers again. I got them at Dollar Tree but they haven't had them the last few times I was there.

undrawing

I was tinkering with the size that I draw this picture so I didn't bother to erase the board before I drew. It turns out the pen had just died and it undrew. Looks kind of neat. I may have to try this on purpose with some of my old markers.

I twisted it

I took the four lobed one and twisted it.

Valentines day on the white board

I did a little thinking last Saturday. I looked up the equation for a tear drop. Then I turned it upside down and leaned it a little right and left. Here is how it came out on Tuesday.

The next step.

This one took over an hour to draw.

Here is a video.

Performance art.

Here is the latest drawing.

Since this is really a form of performance art the pleasure is in watching it draw more than looking at the finished picture. I am working on uploading a video.

Some improvements

I raised the voltage that I run the motors to 12 volts. They run hotter but I don't think they are too hot. That let me speed it up about three times what it was. I tried some things to explore the limits and characteristics of the system.

Then I went back to some old favorites and updated them to work with the LEDs and switch that I added.

They look a lot better with the 12 volt steps.
I am working on some of my other old favorites.

stages 0 through 8

Here are the stages of the dragon fractal with curves. I like the individual stages better than the parade.

 

 

 And here's a short video. The battery died after only a few seconds.

parade of dragons

I got it to do stages 0 through 8 all in a row.

I added some LEDs and a "switch" so I can have it tell me to center the marker, erase the board, and press the button. Then it will wait for me instead of just giving me a minute to do those things whether that was long enough or not.

I am going to order the new version of the Arduino that has lots more memory so maybe I will be able to do more stages. When I get that I will mount it to the frame it isn't all just hanging.

Dragon fractal with curves.

I got the curves to work on the dragon fractal.

Still needs a little tweeking but it is getting there.

Dragon fractal.

I'm working on the dragon fractal in Arduino that I had done in QBASIC.

I want to do it with curves instead of sharp corners. It looks much cooler that way.