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80 Screen FullFill your video screen with square dots, startingfrom the upper left, moving down and across to the lowerright. Line 200 is a freeze frame.Program Listing10 CLS100 FOR X=l TO 21 STEP 2110 FOR Y=l TO 21 STEP 2120 PRINT AT X,Y;CHR$ 128130 NEXT Y140 NEXT X200 GOTO 20081 Sine WaveNote that some complex screen art can be createdwith only a few program lines. You will want to refinethese programs to make them even shorter.Program Listing10 CLS20 FOR X=l TO 6330 LET Y=SIN X + 1040 PLOT X,Y50 NEXT X60 GOTO 6082 Hold That PoseThe illusion of motion is important in computergraphics. But, to make a character move, you have to drawit first!Here we have created a friendly little stick man. But,103