Turtle Steps

August 3, 2024

Pixels # UCBLogo was designed to run on DOS machines, which had a well-defined screen resolution. Windows wasn’t really a thing at the time, and so you could count on the turtle’s graphics region being very static. Also, since screen resolutions were so low, a single pixel was much larger, and very visible. So it made sense at the time that everything the turtle did was defined in pixels. ...