Freehand design

Stage 2 of Shape Work

With the instructions from Cole i constructed my shape in Geometers Sketchpad.
From left to right its 10cm across and from up to down its 16.6cm. Then 10cm up from the bottom a line splits across it. Once you have squared the bottom the top can be easily be repeated with this squaring technique. Its not a perfect representation of this but its the best Cole could get. The shape includes rotation and enlargement used together at the same time.
I have included how Christian and mines pieces fit together. In the end we aim for it to be about an inch thick and could be used like a puzzle.

Stage 1

I had originally had a totally different design for our group that i had made up when i was sick. But, after i had had a discussion with my group we changed our design to the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio is where a rectangle spirals in on itself. So we started to design it.

Stage 2 Shape work

Tesselation 2

Tessellations 1

Dr Fu Manchu

Dr Fu Manchu is a villain in the comics "Master of Kung-Fu". He is the father of the hero Shang Chi and aspires to rule the world. As the series goes on his image loses its nobler qualities and by the end of the series he stoops as low as to steal some of his sons blood to give him immortality.
His nemisis is Dr Denis Nayland Smith.

Diary entree #5

This week we continued with our new unit turning to the aspect of translation.
This investigation was big and i had to post two pictures of it on the blog.
Translation is harder than reflection and rotation but in the end i got the hang of it.
I learnt what something like (6,4) means.
We also took a little look at enlargement at the end of the week.

Translation 2

Translation