Draw n Chords
Allows changing the angle at the cost of increased pen up distance
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// You can find the Turtle API reference here: https://turtletoy.net/syntax
Canvas.setpenopacity(1);
// https://www.varsitytutors.com/intermediate_geometry-help/how-to-find-the-length-of-a-chord
// Chord length using perpendicular distance from the center = 2 × √(r2 − d2).
// https://www.cuemath.com/geometry/Chords-of-a-circle/
// Released under the MIT licence
// https://mit-license.org/
// you can use this for commercial gain if you like eg you can sell artworks with this image.
const numLines=200; // min=0 max=210 step=1
const angle=0; // min=0 max=360 step=1
const gap=1; // min=0.5 max=3 step=0.1
const radius=95; // min=10 max=99 step=1
const turtle = new Turtle();
let r2 = radius * radius;
let chordLength;
for(let n=-numLines/2; n < numLines; n = n + gap){
d = n -1;
d2 = d * d;
chordLength = 2 * Math.sqrt(r2 - d2);
turtle.jump(0, + n);
turtle.seth(angle);
turtle.penup();
turtle.forward(chordLength /2);
turtle.pendown();
turtle.back(chordLength);
}