This activity was led by one of Emory's art professors. During this activity she showed us how easy patterns were to produce by using a compass as we continually drew circle after circle from the points of intersection until the page was full. We also traced Escher's work Angels and Devils to demonstrate his use of things such as reflection and rotation to create his tessellation patterns.
(Two of the images were strips that I actually did, and the third is one taken from online to demonstrate what the strips are supposed to look like before they are cut)
Dr. Edmonds
ETLA 350
February 3, 2017
Moebius Strips
The fascinating thing about moebius strips is how simple they are to make. By rotating one end of the strip a mere 180 degrees a completely different belt type product is produced. The concept of the continual plane is something that I would not have expected by the mere shift of the one end of the strip. One could see why using the moebius strip for things like conveyor belts would be more practical because the entire length of the belt receives an equal amount of stress. It is intriguing to me that a finished moebius strip can be split in two and still maintain its singular surface. Altogether the entire process was very interesting, and also not something I would have expected to be able to do with mere strips of paper and tape. I would be very interested to learn what other uses can be found for moebius strips.
Dr. Edmonds
ETLA 350
February 3, 2017
Moebius Strips
The fascinating thing about moebius strips is how simple they are to make. By rotating one end of the strip a mere 180 degrees a completely different belt type product is produced. The concept of the continual plane is something that I would not have expected by the mere shift of the one end of the strip. One could see why using the moebius strip for things like conveyor belts would be more practical because the entire length of the belt receives an equal amount of stress. It is intriguing to me that a finished moebius strip can be split in two and still maintain its singular surface. Altogether the entire process was very interesting, and also not something I would have expected to be able to do with mere strips of paper and tape. I would be very interested to learn what other uses can be found for moebius strips.
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I experimented with these two different photos for my conceptual art project because I could not decide if a basic picture of the object was descriptive enough.
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My first linocut was an attempted self-portrait, the second was something natural(cats), and the third was a tessellation utilizing two shapes(those shapes being squares and diamonds). The first two turned out decently well in my opinion, but the third was difficult to do with precision.
This portion we discussed vanishing points and how perspectives can be changed by utilizing different vanishing points. One drawing just has a vanishing point on both sides of the paper, but with this one the top and bottom of the buildings are not in alignment with any vanishing point. The second incorporates those same two vanishing points while adding one to the top; with this one the tops of the buildings are all in alignment angled up so that if you viewed the drawing from the side you could take a straight edge and lay it along the tops of the buildings. The third drawing has those same three vanishing points while adding one to the bottom that incorporates the same alignment mentioned in the second drawing.
For my abstract project I decided to use the E&H football scoreboard. The coloring did not turn out all that well due to using colored pencils, but I believe I achieved the anonymity aspect by making the writing and illustrations on the scoreboard illegible. If somebody in passing this piece in an art gallery I believe it would be nearly impossible to discern what the illustration is mimicking.