Faster turtles

Using the Python Imaging Library I’ve created a faster alternative to the turtle.py module. It takes only a few seconds to draw images that were taking several minutes with turtle.py.

There are a few downsides to this approach I suppose:

• There is no on-screen animation of the image being created which is useful tool when teaching turtle graphics — only a finished image is created.
• Output is a raster image, not a nice svg or eps file.

On the up side:

• Super fast
• Antialiased
• All Python Imaging Library tools and methods also available.
• At the moment is largely compatible with the turtle.py module

Who knows… once I’ve got the code into a more finished state I may share my fast-turtle module with the world.

Here’s a nice animation that I created with my aforementioned fast turtle module:

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