CS111 Lab 6 Programming Problems

NestedPolygonWorld

In NestedPolygonWorld, PolygonBuilders build nested polygon patterns. We can specify the size of the polygon (ie the length of one side -- all sides are the same length) and the number of polygons to nest. When we create a PolygonBuilder polly, she starts at a specific place with her pen down and facing the right. If we ask her to build fewer than one polygon, she does nothing. She builds her first polygon (an equilateral triangle) with the bottom left corner of the polygon at her starting position. Regardless of the number of polygons she builds, polly stands in her initial position facing her initial direction when she is finished. The following pictures illustrate the result from asking polly to build different numbers of polygons.


polly.nestEquiPolygons(100, 1);

polly.nestEquiPolygons(100, 2);

polly.nestEquiPolygons(100, 3);

polly.nestEquiPolygons(100, 4);

Our task is to fill in the code for the nestEquiPolygons method in the PolygonBuilder class. The following skeleton is provided for us.


public void nestEquiPolygons (double size, int number) {

  System.out.println("nestEquiPolygons("+size+", "+number+");");

  // add your code here

}

We may also want to define auxiliary methods in the PolygonBuilder class. We should not need to modify the NestedPolygonWorld class in order for our code to work. However, we may modify it during testing.

Note: Be sure your code works with numbers higher than 4! For example, polly.nestEquiPolygons(100, 6); should give you the picture below: