Geometric Design

by: Adrian W.
High Tech High, San Diego CA

Project Description

The assignment was to create seven differen designs using a program called Geometer. We used either translation, rotation, and reflection to make these shapes (Mainly rotation). We started off with 3 shapes to copy off and then the other 4 we had to create with our own imagination. The shapes below are the ones my partner (Adrian White) and I created.

Although it’s just a pentagon it is a simple design with 5 fold rotational symmetry. It is a little harder then it looks to make a pentagon, we had to rotate each line 108 degrees. The total degrees of a pentagon is 540 degrees. The slope is -.73 and the y-intercept is 4.55.

This is an Islamic design, if you look at the overall view its asymmetrical. When you look at every individual shape you will notice they are all equal angles and lengths. The reason I positioned it like this was to give the viewer a feel for asymmetry and symmetry.