Patterns Across Space and Time

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Animation/Art Ideas

Computer/Lab

All Group Meeting

1

Introductions

MAC Survey

On Perception

Film: Time Out, Priit Parn

Number Patterns

Sacred Geometry, Intro- Ch 3

Crystal & Dragon Intro - Ch 3

Triangle, Square, Pyramid and Fibonnaci #s

Stacking with balls of clay

Pascal’s Triangle # patterns

Basic Drawing

Assign Sketch Journals

Zoetrope strip

Bouncing Ball

Intro to Excel –

Iteration

Field Trip Organization

Writing Tutors and assignments

2

Growth Patterns

Film:  Shoreline, Al Jarnow

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Ch 1-8

Sacred Geometry Ch 4-5

On Rates of Growth

Geometric/ Arithmetic series workshop – modeling nature

Drawing warm-up

technical proficiencies

Linear and exponential growth with Excel

Field Trip Organization

Writing

3

La Push Field Trip

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Ch 9-end

 4

Scaling

Powers of Ten , Eames

Steamboat Willie and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Disney

Stephen J. Gould;

 “A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse”  and “Size and Shape”

On Growth & Form “On Magnitude”

Pottery/ Sculpture building workshop

Drawing warm-up

Neoteny exercise:  Character design

Power Laws on Excel

Mid quarter conferences during office hours

Field Trip follow up and debriefing

5

Scaling

Metamorphosis in Visual Art

On Growth and Form ch 9

Klee and Nature

The Nature of Nature, Klee, 1-111

Scaling and Growth

Allometry

From realism to abstraction: Metamorphosis

Introduction to Photoshop: scanning

Mid quarter conferences

6

Spiral Patterns

On Growth & Form Ch 6-7

Sacred Geometry Ch 6

Polar coordinates workshop

Gnomonic Growth?

Hand drawn animation of spirals

Photoshop 2

SGID: Theresa

Group critiques of project work

7

Phyllotaxis

Reading on Phyllotaxis

Phyllotaxis Workshop – paristiches

Hand drawn animation of phyllotaxis

Intro to Logo – Turtle Geometry

Group critiques of project work

8

Symmetry

Crystal & Dragon, Ch 4 -6

On Growth and Form Ch 3

Symmetry Group tables workshop

Stencil/print of images to create symmetry/tile patterns

Logo Animation of Phyllotaxis/ Web links exercises

Pre-Thanksgiving workshop

Group critiques of program work

9

Tiling

Islamic Art

Crystal & Dragon, Ch. 7-9

On Growth and Form Ch.4

Escher, Non-Periodic Tiling

Irregular tiling workshop

Tiling animations

Introduction to Geometer's Sketchpad

Self-eval workshop, worksheet

10

Pi

Flatland

Drawing /scratching on film

Geometer’s Sketchpad

Gallery Show and Social