Mmara Krado

Mmara Krado is composed of two distinct words. "Mmara" means law and "Krado" means padlock. It is the symbol of the seal of law and order. It represents supreme authority and the court of justice.

We will use the 5 pixel grid to trace out this image. The image of this is shown below:

The plan to draw this shape is given below:

1. Lift up the pen
2. Set the pensize to 15 pixels
3. Move the turtle to the left position of the inner semi-circle of the upper part of the symbol
4. Set the heading to 90 degrees
5. Place the pen down
6. Draw the inner semi-circle
7. Lift up the pen
8. Move the turtle to the left position of the middle semi-circle of the upper part of the symbol
9. Set the heading to 90 degrees
10. Place the pen down
11. Draw the middle semi-circle
12. Lift up the pen
13. Move the turtle to the left position of the outer semi-circle of the upper part of the symbol
14. Set the heading to 90 degrees
15. Place the pen down
16. Draw the outer semi-circle
17. Lift up the pen
18. Move the turtle to the right position of the inner semi-circle of the lower part of the symbol
19. Set the heading to 270 degrees
20. Place the pen down
21. Draw the inner semi-circle
22. Lift up the pen
23. Move the turtle to the right position of the middle semi-circle of the lower part of the symbol
24. Set the heading to 270 degrees
25. Place the pen down
26. Draw the middle semi-circle
27. Lift up the pen
28. Move the turtle to the right position of the outer semi-circle of the lower part of the symbol
29. Set the heading to 270 degrees
30. Place the pen down
31. Draw the outer semi-circle
32. Lift up the pen
33. Place the pen at the location for the leftmost part of the upper part of the symbol
34. Set the heading to 0 degrees
35. Place the pen down
36. Move forward to cover the leftmost part of the upper part of the symbol
37. Lift up the pen
38. Move the pen to the location of the innermost part of the upper part of the symbol
39. Place the pen down
40. Move forward to cover the right of the upper part of the symbol
41. Lift up the pen
42. Place the pen at the location for the leftmost part of the lower part of the symbol
43. Place the pen down
44. Move forward to cover the leftmost part of the lower part of the symbol
45. Lift up the pen
46. Move forward over the gap between the two parts
47. Place the pen down
48. Move forward to cover the right of the lower part of the symbol
49. Lift up the pen
50. Move the pen to the left  location of the middle semi-circle
51. Set the heading to 90 degrees
52. Move forward to cover the gap
53. Lift up the pen
54. Move the pen to the right location of the middle semi-circle
55. Move forward to cover the gap

Using Turtle Graphics

We will use the template.py file and rename it to mmara.py.

The coordinate left position of the inner semi-circle is (25, 50). Once we know this, we can write the code for steps 1 to 6.

The code for this is shown below:

turtle.penup()

turtle.pensize(30)

turtle.setposition(25, 50)

turtle.setheading(90)

turtle.pendown()

turtle.circle(25, 180)

The generated image is shown below:

The coordinate of the middle semi-circle is (75, 50). Knowing this value, we can draw the middle semi-circle. The code for steps 7 to 11 is shown below:

turtle.penup()

turtle.setposition(75, 50)

turtle.setheading(90)

turtle.pendown()

turtle.circle(75, 180)

The generated image is shown below:

The coordinate of the outer semi-circle is (125, 50). Knowing this value, we can draw the outer semi-circle. The code for steps 12 to 16 is shown below:

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(125, 50)
turtle.setheading(90)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.circle(125, 180)

The generated image is shown below:

The coordinate for the inner semi-circle of the lower part of the symbol is (-25, -50). The code for steps 17 to 21 is given below:

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(-25, -50)
turtle.setheading(270)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.circle(25, 180)

The generated image is shown below:

The coordinate for the middle semi-circle of the lower part of the symbol is  is (-75, -50). The code for steps 22 to 26 is given below:

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(-75, -50)
turtle.setheading(270)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.circle(75, 180)

The generated image is shown below:

The coordinate for the middle semi-circle of the lower part of the symbol is  is (-125, -50). The code for steps 27 to 31 is shown:

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(-125, -50)
turtle.setheading(270)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.circle(125, 180)

The generated image is shown below:

The location of the leftmost part of the upper part of the symbol is (-125, 40). The distance between this point and the location of the innermost part of the upper part of the symbol is 100.

The code for steps 32 to 36 is shown below:

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(-125, 40)
turtle.setheading(0)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.forward(100)

The location of the innermost part of the upper part of the symbol is at (25, 40). The code for steps 37 to 40 is shown below:

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(25, 40)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.forward(100)

The generated image is shown below:

To draw the lower line, we simply repeat the steps we used to draw the upper line but now use the coordinates (-125, -40) and (25, -40).

The code to draw the lower line is shown below:

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(-125, -40)
turtle.setheading(0)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.forward(100)
turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(25, -40)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.forward(100)

The generated image is shown below:

To draw the remaining lines we only need the coordinates of the left and right location of the middle semi-circle. These are (-75, -40) and (75, -40). The gap between the two lines is 80 pixels.

The code to complete the shape is shown below:

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(-75, -40)
turtle.setheading(90)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.forward(80)

turtle.penup()
turtle.setposition(75, -40)
turtle.setheading(90)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.forward(80)

The final symbol is shown below:

Conclusion

At the end of this section, we have managed to draw the Mmara Krado symbol.

This post is part of the series: Drawing Adinkra Symbols using Python. The goal is to draw 40 Adinkra symbols using the Python programming language.