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by sn9 3581 days ago
The obvious solution to me is an image of a turtle in the process of being drawn by a Logo triangle.

You'd want it to be incomplete, but complete enough to have transformed from an arrangement of lines to something that's unambiguously a turtle.

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Thanks! Or a turtle being drawn by a turtle being drawn by a turtle... turtles all the way down! ^_^

Seriously, though - I appreciate the suggestion - I was thinking of triangles drawing triangles, and turtles drawing turtles - but it didn't occur to me to mix the two. Great idea!

> triangles drawing triangles

Reminds me of a Sierpinski triangle[1]. Can you have a turtle infilled with the Sierpinski pattern, or maybe a Sierpinski triangle being drawn by a turtle?

Also, you could get a tattoo with something like:

    to e :s :l
    if :l>0[repeat 3[e :s/2 :l-1 fd :s rt 120]]
    end
    e 99 5
Which is Logo code to draw a Sierpinski triangle (main credit [2], you can demo at [3]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle [2]: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/10793 [3]: http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/