Updates

We’ve added a number of new 3D shape primitives in the latest release:

skewfiso
skewiso
skewpyramid
skewpyramoid
skewquad
skewrect
skewtraperect
skewtrapevoxeloid
skewtrapezoid
skewvoxeloid
traperect
trapevoxeloid
trapezoid

These allow you to “skew” (or slant) the created shape and / or compress or expand one “end” of it (trape, or trapezoidal). This allows for a large increase in the number of possible shapes you can create in turtleSpaces.

Also, you can export an arbitrarily-sized render of the current scene using the new SAVEPNG primitive:

Don’t want to download the turtleSpaces client just yet? Well, you can take turtleSpaces for a bit of a spin using Myrtlebot, our turtleSpaces Twitter Bot! Myrtlebot executes whatever Logo code (not procedures yet) you tweet at her, and then returns an image of the results. In the future, we plan to allow for the recording of movies, but for now it’s just a still image. If your code runs for more than 60 seconds, it will be cut off at the 60 second mark.

turtleSpaces has a new primitive, SAVESTL, which can be used to export 3D models of the current turtleSpace.

savestl "modelname

creates a new folder in the current project folder (TSP) with the extension MDL (eg modelname.mdl), inside which contains STL format files, one for each color used in the space. These files can be used with other 3D applications (such as the pictured viewstl.com website), and can be 3D printed (although the sides of objects may need to be extruded using another application first, if the desire is for the objects to be hollow).

After a year of work, we are pleased to make available to the public our new Logo interpreter, turtleSpaces.

turtleSpaces implements the Logo programming language inside of the OpenGL 3D graphics environment, allowing you to use turtles to construct 3D models and create animations, simulations and games.

We initially implemented a version of Apple Logo II in our microM8 Apple II emulator to make it easier to use for our younger users, and because microM8 itself uses OpenGL to render the Apple II’s graphics (also in 3D) we added some rudimentary 3D commands to it (up, down, rollleft, rollright, etc.)

Greetings, fearless early adopter!

Don’t worry, it’s not really that bad. We’ve been working for months and months to ensure that the first experience our early adopters have with turtleSpaces is not catastrophic.

But there are still a few wrinkles in the turtleSpaces road to be worked out. And we’re working them out as quick as we can.

We’ve built-in an auto-update mechanism to ensure you get the fixes for those wrinkles ASAP!