For this turtle art project I made the solar system with only 2 planets. My main goal for this was just to make some planets with stars in the background. I never even thought to myself for a moment that I would gradient the planets. The hardest part in this project was either the gradient or the randomized stars. For the stars I used a block that randomized the x and y axis placing stars wherever it wanted. I worked 20 minutes on just finding the correct way to use the randomize for set xy. The other hard part was the gradient. I made the gradient by placing circles inside of other circles and changing the shade each time that it placed another circle. This link shows the project in action. Here is a picture of the action blocks and the finished project.

This project was also inspired by 2 other projects the first project is eclipse. The reason that I was inspired by it was because it gave me the thought of space. I looked around for other projects and found snow fall. I realized that the snow could be modified a bit to become stars. Eclipse was also helpful because of the gradient which also gave me the idea for the 2 planets to be gradient.

In this project I wrote my name in turtle art. The biggest challenge of all was definitely finding out the correct angle and correct arc. This was the hardest because if I went just 1 angle over or under it would not connect properly. When I finally got it sometimes it messed with other parts of the code so I had to go back and fix those. This project took me 1 class period but another 3ish to perfect it. I learned how to use action blocks which make it so your code can fit into one tiny block. In the picture below you can see that each letter has its own action block. This will be used a lot in the next project (hint hint).