Formation and Parameters Assignment
I made a couple of sketches in my sketch book to see what I could potentially do while making the physical squares.
Here is a picture of the compositional study that I did in the sketch book:
In this I tried to incorporate many different variations while grouping them into categories such as ordered line patterns, where the thickness of the line is the same through out the whole square, the second category was in ascending order, where the thickness of the line gradually increases- it is either the black part which is indicate by the shaded area or the white part indicated by the non shaded area. The third category was unordered patterns, I wanted to experiment with all the various permutations and combinations I could use to create a unique pattern in each square.
Here are my final 10 squares attached in the PDF file
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Once we made all the squares, in class, we had the opportunity to put up all the 10 squares that we made onto the board. Hence we were able to see the similarities and differences between all everyones 10 squares.
We tried creating our own unnamed categories by assembling the squares together. We randomly would put squares at different places according to our judgement. A person would put one of their squares in that area, and the type of white lines seen in the bar would become the basis of the category that everyone would put their squares on. The different categories consisted of equally spaced out black and white lines which were also of equal thickness. Another category was with minimal white lines or no whit lines at all, another category was with minimal black lines. Another category was where the white lines are very close together and thickness of them was very low, and so on. The whole wall was filled with many different types of squares, which created a very unique pattern.
Once we put up all of our squares, we recreated them on illustrator, just to understand how it all works. I was able to create squares on illustrator. We also then learned how to use the shape builder tool, which was very helpful to connect two shapes into one. Here are a few examples of the squares that I created using illustrator. I also have a screen recorded video of making the boxes.
Once I learned how to make the squares, I took a square and created a version of a square, using one pattern and following the template of 10 inches x 15 inches which has a total of six squares. I created a template on tracing paper and then created the same template online.
Moving on to the next part, I was very fascinated by the optical illusion in class and wanted to experiment on how to create them. I tried to use one of the squares that I had made and created a pattern by overlaying the designed square over each other. The image below, is the first designed square that I started with.
I then took the white stripes in the same square and rotated the to create a checkered pattern. The image below represents the checkered pattern. Which I used as a base to create the optical illusion.
I use the same square and reflected it to make a bigger square, and then keep doing that to create a big pattern. The images below represent a whole square, and the final pattern as well.
Overall I really liked this project, I really had a good time learning about the tools in illustrator and experimenting with finding different ways to lines and patterns with a different set of rules every time.
