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For this picture I decided to go back to the stars and hexagons because I felt like this was my best and cleanest work I’ve done. I used different strokes of shading in order to help each shape stand out on its own. The tessellation of these kinds of stars are fun for me to draw because being Jewish I would always make my stars like these because they look like the Star of David.

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Lizard, by Escher, is a very interesting tessellation that uses primarily circles squares, and triangles as its base shapes in order to create the body and eyes of the lizard. There are two types of lizards in this tessellation, white and black both which are rotated 180 degrees from the tip of their noses as well as translated on lizard length either up and down or left and right in order to get the intertwined picture we see here.

http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/recognition-success/no-104-lizard/

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This piece of Islamic inspired artwork stood out to me because of the many different uses of color and shapes, starting simple from the top to more intricate as you make your way down.  I decided to pick this one out of the many other choices because I really enjoy the way tiles look when you put together many different shapes and colors plus the fact that this tiling can pretty much fit anywhere you wanted it to and would still look good.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tessellations+and+Islamic+design&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim4-L0v_PXAhUU4WMKHfRSB90Q_AUICigB&biw=1396&bih=668#imgrc=sz0uQnoXo8VFrM:

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I decided to use squares and triangles as my main fractal. Half way up each triangle is where I wanted to start each new fractal. The goal was to get all of the fractals equal to one half of the preceding one. So the whole fractal should be decreasing by half each time a new shape is created🔺◼️

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the part that i wanted to look further into from the video was how fractals are used in special effects, in particular, movies.  Originally fractals were only used in the background as to make mountains and terrain which makes since because fractals are rough so it would look more realistic.  After further researching, I found out that fractals led to what is now known as CGI or computer-generated imagery.  CGI is currently used in most movies today, making it easier for companies to create unrealistic settings and characters.  As seen above, CGI was able to make these two actors into mythical creatures without the use of makeup and props. So pretty much your favorite movies might not be around today without fractals!

http://twistedsifter.com/tag/cgi/

http://specialeffectsmoviesebook.blogspot.com/2013/02/1-fractals-in-special-effects.html

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My real life drawing of a fractal system is of a tree. The way I️ made this one was by creating a branch halfway up the tree to one side and then creating another one three quarters of the way up on the other side. My understanding of an iterated function system is that it is just a method of creating objects that are self similar by using the same method infinitely to create a self look alike shape(like the tree I️ made here).

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For my drawing I️ decided to go with the Sierpinski triangle. To me, this drawing was the most mesmerizing so it was an obvious pick. In order to create this drawing I️ has to place a triangle on all three sides of every right side-up triangle. Because of this, the only hollow triangles are the ones that are upside down🔽

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I️ didn’t have many colors besides purple and red which just so happened to be the color of the tree outside my window. I️ used the camera obscura in order to trace my drawing on to paper. It’s really hard to trace due to the flimsy paper on basically no surface so it’s amazing how some people can use this to make such detailed drawings. Overall I️ think that the camera is the coolest part and it’s really interesting that we were able to make this with just some cardboard and a magnifying glass🔭

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The camera I️ chose to look at was the Polaroid. I️ feel like this was one of the main reasons why we have portable cameras today. These cameras have their own built in studio which is crazy something that’s normally so big can fit in something so small. The way it works is that the camera lets in a little bit of light that leaves an impression on the film making a picture.

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A camera obscura is a device used to project an image from the outside world into a surface. Recently there has been some controversy on weather or not some of the famous artists have used these or not. I️ personally don’t think they did for two reasons. 1, why would they care back then about showing people how they work. And 2, with something that big it would be hard for them to keep it from the public. Although it could be true that they did in fact use these devices, but overall I️ don’t think it really matters.

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The anamorphic piece I tried to recreate was this cool drawing I found on YouTube. This picture is meant to be seen with a mirror but I think I did well. The hardest part was figuring out the right lengths of the cubes. https://youtu.be/TPZjlTqS2m4

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The piece I chose was an impossible figure made by M.C. Escher. This piece was made in the early 1950’s and is called relativity which is funny because it isn’t real at all. Actually it’s quite the opposite because it’s a impossible picture. What makes this impossible are the many conflicting points of view and gravitational directions. Although this can hurt your head to think about, this is definitely one of my favorite pieces of art http://www.artsology.com/escher-relativity.php

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For my drawing I decided to go with a 3 point perspective drawing. At first I was going for an intersection but my vanishing points weren’t spread out enough which I think would have given me a closer resemblance of a 4 way intersection. What makes this a 3 point perspective are the 3 vanishing points, labeled v1 v2 and v3. One technique I used was making every part go to the vanishing point.

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These are my two and three point perspectives respectively. What makes these a two and three point perspective really depends on how many vanishing points there are. For the first one there are two vanishing points where for the second one there are three vanishing points. You will notice that all the windows and structures follow the same vanishing point just like the building itself. I chose these because nothing seems like a better example of two and three point perspectives like a city street🏘 http://thevirtualinstructor.com/images/detailsintwopointperspective.jpg https://www.craftsy.com/blog/2013/08/three-point-perspective/

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For my one point perspective drawing I decided to go with the classic street drawing. I chose this one because of the nostalgic drawings I remembered doing back in elementary school when learning about perspective. Some techniques I tried to use in this were to keep everything in the same viewing angle and have all things parallel to me and the horizon. 🚘

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Here is my example of true one point perspective. The picture I found here was a railroad with the two main vertical bars getting closer and closer together, eventually reaching a single vanishing point. Something else to notice is that each wood panel is exactly parallel to the horizon no matter how far down you look because of our viewing angle. 🚆

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For my drawing I decided to add on to the exercise and create a quaint little house. Adding in the numbers and trying to get it to look as close to each other as possible was actually pretty satisfying once you got it to look decent🏡