Trees

Tree drawing tool animation


The accompanying animations demonstrate how the Tree Drawing Tool works to construct trees. The tool implements transformational movement in a standard way. Once a tree is built by the user, it can be copied into any modern word processing program as a picture. In the Macintosh version of the program, trees constructed with the tool have strings of dummy symbols at their leaves. Actual words are substituted in the word processing document by editing the picture. In the Windows version, the dummy symbols can be replaced by words within the Trees program itself.

To view the Macintosh animation, click here.

To view the Windows animation, click here.

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