The Art of Construction
The steps on constructing my design
What I did on constructing my design was that I started with a simple square. I figured that I should make it more of a parallel image so I made another square the same size, but I made it like a compare and contrast diagram with squares. Since I made the squares a little big, I wanted to fill them with a different shape, so I decided a circle would be best decision (thinking that we had to use a compass in our project). I thought it was a little bland still, so I made triangles on the sides that had corners. I remembered that we had to have some type of flower, so I thought that it would be cool if I made a flower out of small circles overlapping each other. Remembering that I wanted to make my image parallel, I made three other flowers on the corners of my paper. I thought that it was finished after that, when I realized that I didn't make a polygon (which was on my list), so I quickly made a box around my center piece, making a few polygons with the squares and box together.
Reflection
One high that I've experienced throughout this project is that I figured out what the mathematical version of a compass was. Another high was that when I was coming up with ideas for my art of construction, I didn't really have to make too many drafts because I already had the image of what it would look like. One low I've had throughout this project, was that I didn't really have a difference between my first and second draft, except that my second draft was a lot neater, so I didn't know if it was supposed to have a big difference or not. Another low that I had is that I am not so tech-savvy, so it was extremely complicated for me to figure out how to use Geogebra, and how to make the shapes I wanted to make.
I have applied the "looking for patterns" Habit of a Mathematician to this project because when we were assigned to create shapes on a piece of paper, some of us actually made the paper, mirror imaged to the other side, and in that we are making patterns with duplicating the shapes that we made.
The simplest of mathematical tools can be used to create beautiful work because the compass can make basically any size circle you want it to, and some of them actually have a ruler on measuring how big the circle is going to be. The straight line also has its place because you can basically make any shape you can possibly think of (except for the circle, oval, etc.). So with the two together, you can make any piece of beautiful work you want to.
I have applied the "looking for patterns" Habit of a Mathematician to this project because when we were assigned to create shapes on a piece of paper, some of us actually made the paper, mirror imaged to the other side, and in that we are making patterns with duplicating the shapes that we made.
The simplest of mathematical tools can be used to create beautiful work because the compass can make basically any size circle you want it to, and some of them actually have a ruler on measuring how big the circle is going to be. The straight line also has its place because you can basically make any shape you can possibly think of (except for the circle, oval, etc.). So with the two together, you can make any piece of beautiful work you want to.