Click the Green flag to begin your spiral. (I recommend waiting a few seconds before using the following!) Click the right and left arrows to change the spiral shape. Click the up or down arrows to change the pen shade. Click the space bar to change the size.
Musical Credit to Pictures of the Floating World - Convergence freemusicarchive.org Task - Create a project that uses a variable to decide when something happens. It surprises me the rabbit holes I seem to meander down recently! I use variables fairly often (- they both fascinate me and at times confuse me!) and had a few projects in mind for the task, but today I also intended to keep it simple! Quite by accident I discovered that an invisible sprite can create an effect when using the pen blocks, and I coded a simple spiral pattern. When I started to add variables - pen size, degrees turned I got suckered in, and this simple idea took longer than anticipated. At one point in my various iterations, the clone stopped deleting and would glitch after creating 300+. I tried various work arounds, including many new versions of the same project - thank goodness for save as copy! I resorted to adding a minute paint dot to the sprite?? My pen size variable did nothing that the change pen block did! So I removed it, and used the broadcast block. For a while I could not work out why the degree variable made strange increments - which is why I kept it visible - normally I "hide" them. Then worked out that it was because it was associated with the clones - I think? I imported the change pen shade from Scratch 2, which I found in my backpack! I thought about adding other variables as I felt it wasnt quite doing the task justice but I also like the effect created!
