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Sunday, July 20, 2008

sicp exercise 2.52



;; Exercise 2.52.  Make changes to the square limit of wave shown in figure 2.9 by working at each of the levels described above. In particular:

;; a.  Add some segments to the primitive wave painter of exercise  2.49 (to add a smile, for example).

;; b.  Change the pattern constructed by corner-split (for example, by using only one copy of the up-split and right-split images instead of two).

;; c.  Modify the version of square-limit that uses square-of-four so as to assemble the corners in a different pattern. (For example, you might make the big Mr. Rogers look outward from each corner of the square.)

;; a.

;; :-(


;; b.

(define (corner-split painter n)
  (if (= n 0)
      painter
      (let ((up (up-split painter (- n 1)))
            (right (right-split painter (- n 1))))
        (let ((top-left up)
              (bottom-right right)
              (corner (corner-split painter (- n 1))))
          (beside (below painter top-left)
                  (below bottom-right corner))))))

;; c.

(define (square-of-four tl tr bl br)
  (lambda (painter)
    (let ((top (beside (tl painter) (tr painter)))
          (bottom (beside (bl painter) (br painter))))
      (below bottom top))))

(define (square-limit painter n)
  (let ((combine4 (square-of-four flip-vert rotate180
                                  identity flip-horiz)))
    (combine4 (corner-split painter n))))


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