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At PyCon 2025, I handed out a pocket-sized zine that lets you play a procedurally generated choose-your-own-adventure version of tic-tac-toe. The zine itself is available as a PDF for viewing on your computer and a PDF for double-sided printing. Here's how I made it using Python.
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Part 5 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, we'll learn how to change the size of shapes by scaling them with the scale() method. We'll also get some more practice drawing in general. We'll draw this forest:
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Part 5 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about grouping, cloning, and rotating shapes.
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Part 4 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about drawing with paths.round color of a canvas as well as the shapes fabric.Polygon and fabric.Line.
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Part 3 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn how to set the background color of a canvas as well as the shapes fabric.Polygon and fabric.Line.
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This is Part 2 of the Fabric.js tutorial canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about Polyline shapes and styling shapes by drawing a gingerbread figure.
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This is part 1 my tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about drawing basic shapes like rectangles, circles, and triangles to draw pine trees.
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Tweening functions allow you to easily add many different styles of natural-seeming movement to the graphics in your program. In this blog post, you'll learn about how tweening functions can make more lively movement animations using Pygame and the PyTweening third-party library. Tweening functions apply to any programming language, but this tutorial has actual Python code for you to run and experiment with. Start by installing these libraries by running pip install pygame and pip install pytweening from the terminal. Then follow along with the code examples.
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4 stars. I came across Selçuk Artut’s Geometric Patterns with Creative Coding while researching several topics on computer-generated art for beginners. I admit, the single 1-star review for this book annoyed me enough to read and review. I’ve come away believing that this book certainly deserves wider and better attention than that.
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The third edition is has new chapters, programming projects, and revised editing. The third party module coverage has been updated to the latest available version (including OpenPyXL). You can run pip install automateboringstuff3 to install the latest version of all modules covered in the book that are compatible with the …