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Watch a construction get built, then read the page that explains it.

Note

Every video is captioned. The videos are spoken in English, and YouTube can translate the captions into your own language: turn subtitles on, open the settings gear, choose Subtitles, then the auto-translate option, and pick your language. The translation is machine-made, so the geometry terms in it will not always match the ones Locus uses. Where they disagree, the pages listed under each video are the ones to trust.

Everything is on the Algorista channel. This page follows it: each playlist gets a heading, and every video under that heading is listed with the pages it goes with.

Some videos come with the file that was built in them. The download link sits under that video, and the tutorial files page lists all of them in one place.

Tutorials

The Locus Studio Tutorials playlist. They are in the order they were made, and each one assumes the ones before it, so start at the top if you are new.

1. Getting Around Locus Studio The two windows, the panels, and where everything is. Read: Interface tour, Canvas basics

2. Your First Construction in Locus Studio Placing points, drawing through them, and watching the construction hold together when you move something. Read: Your first pattern, Points, Lines, rays & segments

3. Perpendiculars, Parallels and Bisectors The constructions most patterns are built out of. Read: Lines, rays & segments, Construct menu File: T03_Euclid.locus

4. The Layers Panel in Locus Studio Naming, ordering, hiding, and what the object names mean. Read: The Layers panel

5. Compass and Straightedge in Locus Studio Working the way we do on paper: tick a crossing, strike an arc, build from what you already have. Read: Compass & straightedge File: T05_CNS_Square.locus

6. Points That Live on Things Points that ride on a curve, and points the geometry works out for you. Read: Points, Point: On Object

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Related

• Your first pattern: the same ground as Tutorial 2, in writing.
• Screencast mode: how these were recorded, with the keystrokes and mouse on screen.
• Community & support: ask a question about anything in these.