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Would be nice to make not just a decimal direction picture, but one for other bases as well. Binary won't work as you just move back and forth along a single line, but ternary should work, and as the minimal base for 2D directions, is less arbitrary than decimal. Then I'd look at bases 4,5,6,7, and octal as well to see whether the picture depends more on the number or on the base.

Another choice is whether to use absolute directions, or relative to the current direction, as in Logo.



for binary, introduce a constant down step, and then let the line run back and forth in that space.




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