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2RAINBOW LINES IN SPACE!

In this chapter, you’ll create a cool-looking animation: a rainbow V that flies through space and leaves colorful trails behind. This program was inspired by the demoscene, a subculture of elite programmers who made amazing graphical programs starting in the 1980s.

Demosceners made beautiful, elaborate programs called demos that showed off their artistic, musical, and programming skills. But most amazing of all, these programs were tiny—just a few kilobytes! The program we’ll write isn’t quite as small, but it’s dramatic and colorful, and it uses only a few lines of Scratch code.

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