Question

Using processing and recursion, I’m trying to draw a similar shape to this:

But I feel like I’m losing my mind trying every possible way to draw the shape. This is closest I’ve gotten:

Plus my code, any help would be appreciated. Thanks:

void setup(){
  size(600,600);
}

void draw(){
  background(255);
  draws(300, 300, 50, 5);
}

void draws(int x, int y, int x2, int num){
  stroke(0);
  strokeWeight(2);
  line (x, y, (x+x2), y); //right
  line(x, y, x, y-50); //right up
  line (x-x2, y, x-(x2*2), y); // left 
  line(x-x2, y, x-x2, y-50); //left up 
  line (x, y-50, x-x2, y-50); //top 

  if(num>0){
    draws(x-x2, y-x2, x2/2, num-1);
  }
}

Answer 1

I got it! Thanks for the help.

Here is the meat of it, everything else was fine:

line(x, y, x, y-x2); //right

line(x-x2, y, x-x2, y-x2); //left

if (num>0) {

draws(x-(x2/3), y-x2, x2/3, num-1); // Central one  

draws(x+(x2/1.5), y, x2/3, num-1); // right one  

draws(x-(x2*1.33), y, x2/3, num-1); // left one

}

if (num==0) { //If there are no more instances, draw the horzontal lines

line (x, y, (x+x2), y); //right

line (x-x2, y, x-(x2*2), y); // left 

line (x, y-x2, x-x2, y-x2); //top 

}