— Eadweard Muybridge’s iconic animated race horse, 1878 (image from Wikipedia)

For this unit, work through the following preparatory activities.

• The section of An Introduction to Tkinter devoted to “The Canvas Widget” - Focus on the first sections: patterns & concepts. The actual API documentation referenced here is less that wonderful, so we suggest that you use these Canvas API reference slides instead. The origin, point (0, 0), is in the upper left corner.

  When finished, try to create a simple drawing that uses a few of the canvas items. If you have the time, try one of these rather more involved examples; otherwise, just get something running.

  

• This video demo — key ideas not emphasized in the text:
  • Canvas coordinates
  • Canvas color model
  • Animation

  You can find the final version of the sample code here: code/car/*