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Rhiannon Russell, 607660 Semester 1 2013, Group 7 Module One: IDEATION

Module One: IDEATION Week One Response

Step One ture behind the abstract form

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an individual perceives the world and what is around them.

One of the main points addressed was how patterns are formations that occur throughout nature and have relationships with art. While art can appear to be abstract, it can be factorised

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followed to produce the same pattern each time? The truth is depending on their own knowledge. So while a set of rules and recipe steps can describe what a pattern should look like, the -

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drawings.

Accentuation: emphasising aspects -

on the composition of a mature danelion because its pattern is simple, but also low it to become a complex structure.

When the ball is full it represents a complete circle with all the stems in the same stage of development.

As the seeds begin to disperse with the wind, the immediate image and patthe original repition of the seeds is still apparent.

The dandelion

out and the petals drop off. After this the dandelion matures and 5miles from their origin.

resents the three celestial

Balance The shape of the ‘blowball’, while not being

Balance is evident within the dandelion through evenness. Each seed has a stem that is almost

parts that face one another around an axis.

head it is located.

prominent seeds and their tips. It demonstrates that between each prominent seed Then again one less prominent seed between these. The drawing also highlights that the central circle and its surrounding darker area is

Movement The mature dandelion represents movement as hairs that allow them to disperse over long distances in the wind. the path of the largest seeds that would soon be their stems with dotted lines, and connected them together with respect to size and conse-

where opposing forces are leveled. The two opposite trapeziums when placed together are of ing them together in groups of two.

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Drawing recipe Step Three

Trace over the two most prominant seeds between each bold line.

Step One

Draw a circle around the central

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Draw a dotted line over the seed drawn line.

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Accentuate the boldest 5 seeds using thick lines to show the focal point of the dandelion.

Step Five

Shade the dark area of the dandelion on the outside the circle.

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WEEK TWO Emerging Form Module One: IDEATION

Week Two Response Reading Philip Ball’s article on Pattern Formation in Nature, discusses the idea that patterns are evident thoughout nature

Lecture This weeks lecture focused on emergsequence, distribution, structure or pro-

Yet patterns often form in relation to a mathematical set of rules and repitions.

identical or similar elements.’ Patterns can be transformed using different processes to create effects: ever, while the base structure is genertransformed, the element as a whole is

The dandelion.

The formation of the dandelion is comseries of processes.

From the central ball, a series of seeds are extruded facing different angles to each seed has a series of hairs that profrom the centre. Each hair is of a similar length and extrudes from the end of the seed, like the seeds did from the ball.

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tion of another step or two in the formation process.

Paper Model 1

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Join two pieces together to form a sphere.

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Draw a rough outline of a dandelion seed with a hole in the middle to represent the head.

Step Three

Join four pieces together to form a circle.

Step Six

Weave the other two pieces the other

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Trace the shape and cut them out.

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Repeat Step Three another three times.

Paper Model 2 Step Three

Place pieces together in a ring to represent the outside of the dandelion.

Step One

Cut stips of paper at various widths and lengths.

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Twist them into circles and glue the ends together.

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Rhino 3D Modelling

1. Create a circle ontop of each ot the seed heads of the dandelion.

2. Transform each shape to better resemble the outline of the hairs ontop of the seed.

3. Extrude each shape to different lengths 4. Rotate each shape eachother, as well as shifting them off the x axis

Pine Wreath

I chose the wreath as a precedent because it is made up of basic geometric shapes that are placed together at different ring and extruded and angled to form an abstract piece of a circular form.