Pattern Inspired By Maasai

Made by Michael Madel, intern at the VMFA

This is the first African Belt inspired scratch program I made. It is simpler in the hopes that students would be able to look into the code and remix how it worked without running into too many issues.
Instead of using the pen tool, I made a square sprite with four costumes. To create the pattern I would have the sprite clone itself, change costume then move to the right. Each time it was animated it would repeat this process fifteen times in order to reach all the way to the right of the screen. I had the data value color cycle 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1, etc,. And had each value correspond to a costume so it would be easy for someone looking inside to rearrange what value responded to which costume to change up the pattern. Also the project had very few scripts that were all relatively small so it would be easy to digest.
Also to avoid problems with starting the animation while it was occurring I created the “CheckIfDone” data value that would change while the animation was going and, once the animation was stopped it would change back, allowing you to start it up again