Weekly Project Post — Week 8

• What I did last week:

This was finally the week to finish the very last debugging / improving of any kind on the Rapidly Exploring Random Trees. With a good deal of googling to help me understand the new Python code and how to implement it, I managed to get it to enable the user to CLICK for the start and finish points! This has been a very long-standing wish for this project, as it's a core part of the function of the Random Trees.

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The whole point of the fun, colorful, weird little Rapidly Exploring Random Trees program is to let the user see how some coded python can (in a colorful, artistic way) find a path from a chosen start to a chosen finish point. Many obstacles can be places, so there's only one visible (to the human eye) path. But then it used to require a heck of a lot of random luck and many many attempts to get the start and the end to be at both ends of that visible path!

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Now the user can simply click the start and finish of their choosing. I'm very excited about this improvement; thrilled even!
 
• What I'm doing this week:  

This week I'm going to make the webpages for Rapidly Exploring Random Trees and (if I have time) for N-Units Away Curves. Right now those pages are mostly just placeholders. The final webpages should be visually satisfying and very clear & explanatory.
 
• Any impediments?:

All is well! No impediments
 
• Reflection:

I'm very glad to have learned some new Python functions. It's always fun learning to be a better programmer.