Fall 2001
T-Th 10-11:50
Instructor: Dorothy Wallace
Office: 202 Choate House
Office Hours: 9-12 Wednesday or by appointment
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Math 5, Pattern Fall 2001 T-Th 10-11:50 Instructor: Dorothy Wallace Office: 202 Choate House Office Hours: 9-12 Wednesday or by appointment |
SYLLABUS
Homework 1
Homework 2
Homework 3
Homework 4
Homework 5
Homework 6
Homework 7
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Homework 12
Due Tuesday, Nov. 13
Study the dictionary of wallpaper patterns at the end of the Shibori for Geometers text. Your job is to design a block that will be able to print a large number of these 17 symmetry classes, although it is unlikely that you could produce a block that gets all of them. Artistically, this design assignment is not about color, so you may use a single color or black and white (if you wish). But the assignment is about good use of positive and negative space, etc. so you need to make a very interesting block. Print as many of the wallpaper patterns as you can using your block. Take care, use decent paper, watch the edges of the print (margin size, placement, etc.) It is not cheating to rule the paper lightly in pencil before beginning. Many otherwise good designs are ruined by poor registration or gloppy application of paint. This is a persnickety, fussy assignment and it will take time, so allow yourself time. Again, do it early enough that they will be dry by Tuesday morning.
A word about your growing art collection. I will be collecting ALL of your art at the end of the quarter, and here is how I would like it handed in to me. Pick up two pieces of foamcore poster board and some duct tape. Make yourself a portfolio by attaching the two poster size boards with a duct tape hinge. You can also make duct tape handles. In this item you can store your art flat and carry it all around at once. I can keep them until you pick them up in the winter without worrying about your art getting folded, etc. Please label every piece of art with your name, and the assignment. (Sometimes it isn't obvious whether a piece goes with one or another assignment.) If you have redone some pieces, please indicate which was the original one and which are the redone pieces.
More general info about the art assignments. After this assignment, there are only two more. One is a wallpaper pattern and the other is a final piece accompanied by an explanation of the mathematics in it. Start thinking about that last assignment now.
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