Compound Objects

This section assumes you are very familiar with the concepts, terms and ideas for protograf as presented in the Basic Concepts , that you understand all of the Additional Concepts and that you’ve created some basic scripts of your own using the Core Shapes. You also be familiar with the various types of shape’s properties described in the Customised Shapes

Overview

protograf provides additional objects that can be drawn, along with customised properties, in addition to the basic set of core shapes.

In many cases, these are constructed — compounded — out of one or more of the core shapes; for example, polyominoes are composed of one or more squares and simple dice are also a single square. Thus they are able to use, or reference, many of the properties of these shapes, in addition to their own particular properties.

Cube

Cubes are used in many games, and being able to readily create a basic depiction of them can be useful.

For more details, see the section on Cubes.

Dice

Dice are used in many games, and being able to readily create a basic depiction of them can be useful.

For more details, see the section on Dice.

Dominoes

Dominoes, like cards, are used in a number of games, and being able to readily create a basic depiction of them can be useful.

For more details, see the section on Dominoes.

Polyominoes

These are shapes constructed out of a pattern of one or more squares.

Normally, polyominoes are made up of squares that touch other squares along one or more sides, but the pattern property approach used by protograf means that any kind of arrangement can be constructed.

For more details, see the section on Polyominoes.

Pentominoes

These are one of the most popular and well-known types of polyominoes; and each one is composed of 5 squares in one of 12 unique patterns.

They can referred to by their shortcut letter property which has been assigned to each of the 12 shapes, based on their similarity to letters in the Roman alphabet.

For more details, see the section on Pentominoes.

Tetrominoes

Similar to Pentominoes, these are each composed of 4 squares in one of 5 unique patterns. They can also referred to by their shortcut letter property.

For more details, see the section on Tetrominoes.