python art

I started to learn Python with this excellent German language course by Piko. It was originally taught to FINTA persons as a live online course, but is now free to go through on your own, which is what I've been doing. There are videos, quizzes, and homework.

The course focusses on generative art, using Thonny as IDE, with the Turtle module for the graphic output. I am still at the beginning, so I do not know where it will finally lead me. I want to post art here that I made during the course.

made in: april.2025

line drawing of a 16 petal mandala, divided into 8 sections, were each section is a different colour, clockwise from the top: gold, green, blue, darkblue, darkviolet, purple, red, orange. There are 8 larger petals, each of which is made up of four different size petals, connected at the centre. 5 dots each, in different sizes, sit in a row in the top half of each petal. Between each of those petals is another, smaller petal where each side of the petal is the colour of the petal next to it. There are 3 dots of different sizes in one row between each of the 16 petals, coloured in the respective colour.

Mandala in rainbow colours.

I found out how to draw only parts of circles to get the leaf-like petals. I eyeballed the placement of the outer dots, instead of doing maths, and am glad it worked.

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made in: april.2025

Logo of the United Federation of Planets at the time of the third season of Star Trek: Discovery.

This is not my original design, though it is my code. I looked at an existing image of the logo and translated the positions of the stars into code.

Since the original design is not mine I don't know what the licence of this image could or should be.