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This is my work playing around with trying to set up an opening line to select an element and also trying to animate the electrons. This is the work before Chris and I sat down to go over some of the animation, and I am going to next incorporate the animation from that discussion into this program. I have a lot of ideas here commented out and will need to clean up some of the code next as I continue my work. |
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README.md
(Drawing project)
This is the description of my drawing project, which will be a Bohr model to show how electrons are arranged in an atom.
Description
For my drawing project, I am going to draw a Bohr model which shows how electrons are arranged in an atom. I selected this project because it ties in coding with my work as a chemistry teacher.
This project will require large circles of varying sizes, and dots/filled in circles for the electrons. Once an initial model has been created, I hope to animate the dots (electrons) to move around the rings in a circular path. Another goal I have would be to enter an input about the symbol of the atom and the animation creates the appropriate atom. I think the initial model and the animation are definitely manageable, and while I have some ideas for making the animation work for atoms with different numbers of electrons, based on user input, I think that may be too involved for this particular project. Here is an image of what I intend to make with the electrons in the rings then moving around the circular path.
Planning
I think my project could be best divided into 3 milestones.
The first would be to create the image of a Bohr model for carbon. This would be a still drawing and would resemble the still image submitted above. I imagine this would include various functions including a function for drawing a ring, a function for drawing the electrons, and a function for drawing the nucleus. Iteration can be included because the image will have multiple electrons, which are the same small filled in circle (dot) appearing over and over again. I may need some assistance here in how to draw a filled in circle, but I will check the turtle library first.
The second milestone will be to try to move the electrons using superturtle. I think this may be a bit trickier, but the drawing would still show the Bohr model even if the animation does not work. I plan to use some of the code used on the superturtle information page on the Making with Code website for this part.
The last milestone (which may be more of a long term goal) would be to add an option to input the name of the element and draw the appropriate drawing based on that. I think this would add quite a bit of complexity, so it may be something I would add later if I end up liking the animation. I think this would involve some if/elif/else statements based on user input, which I have a little bit of familiarity with. I would consider the project successful even if I don't reach this milestone becuase I view it more as an extension of the drawing project.
Feedback
Chris, I love this project and I think the milestone makes sense. For drawing filled shapes (and for other drawing features), make sure you check out the documentation for the turtle library.
I actually don't think that making the electrons move will be very challenging--once you have a function to draw a static representation of a ring with electrons in it, you can just call the function from within a rotation of the frame, as shown in the docs:
for frame in animate(frames=30):
with frame.rotate(0, 90):
square(100)
Let's meet if you get stuck!