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    This learning log summarizes the student's observations about concepts of symmetry discussed in Week 1 lectures. For a Viking shield, the student observes point and rotational symmetry. They found the history of the "Eames" chair surprising in how it changed mass production through simple symmetrical design. A Japanese embroidery was described as having three-fold rotational symmetry. In Part 2, the student analyzes formal plane symmetry descriptors for a tiled bathroom pattern and provides examples of noticing symmetry more in everyday objects like car wheels and bird tracks. They confirm geometry is never wrong, though art can distort it, as in an impossible triangle example. The student believes the world can be fully described in 2D and 3D dimensions.

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    This learning log summarizes the student's observations about concepts of symmetry discussed in Week 1 lectures. For a Viking shield, the student observes point and rotational symmetry. They found the history of the "Eames" chair surprising in how it changed mass production through simple symmetrical design. A Japanese embroidery was described as having three-fold rotational symmetry. In Part 2, the student analyzes formal plane symmetry descriptors for a tiled bathroom pattern and provides examples of noticing symmetry more in everyday objects like car wheels and bird tracks. They confirm geometry is never wrong, though art can distort it, as in an impossible triangle example. The student believes the world can be fully described in 2D and 3D dimensions.

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    This learning log summarizes the student's observations about concepts of symmetry discussed in Week 1 lectures. For a Viking shield, the student observes point and rotational symmetry. They found the history of the "Eames" chair surprising in how it changed mass production through simple symmetrical design. A Japanese embroidery was described as having three-fold rotational symmetry. In Part 2, the student analyzes formal plane symmetry descriptors for a tiled bathroom pattern and provides examples of noticing symmetry more in everyday objects like car wheels and bird tracks. They confirm geometry is never wrong, though art can distort it, as in an impossible triangle example. The student believes the world can be fully described in 2D and 3D dimensions.

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    LEARNING LOG 1: Observe, Connect and Reflect on Your Learning (Total 16 marks)

    Convert to pdf format and submit after you have completed all other assignments.
    To gaze is to think. Salvador Dali

    PART I Concepts in Symmetry

    Period

    Focus Image

    Question

    Your Observations

    Describe the symmetry of


    the Viking shield.

    The Symmetry of the Viking shield is quite simple. If we pass a guide line through its
    center, we can notice the reflection that takes places here. Also, the Viking shield
    enjoys the concepts of point symmetry, that being the point in the center of the
    shield. Alongside that, the Viking shield shows the elements of a tetrad fold rotation
    as well.

    Complete at the end of

    Lecture I-4

    Image 1

    What was the most


    surprising or interesting
    fact you learnt from
    Week 1 lectures

    Describe the symmetrical


    elements you see in this
    Japanese embroidery.

    The most surprising element of the first week was the history and the innovation of
    the Eames for me. The matter as to how they changed the world with their simple
    chair and redefined symmetry in mass production.

    The Symmetrical element we see in this Japanese Embroidery is the triad fold
    rotation (the three fold rotation). That is, if we rotate the object (the piece of
    embroidered cloth here) in Segments of 120 degrees, it remains unchanged in its
    aspect, which is basically the definition of symmetry. So we have three-fold rotation
    or 120 degree rotation. The symbol for rotation point is a triangle and this is now not
    point symmetry but plane symmetry.

    Complete at the end of

    Lecture I-8
    Image 2
    Perhaps from my point of view I shall not add anything to it.

    Can you add anything to


    your Week 1 description
    of the Viking shield?

    You cant criticize geometry. Its never wrong. Paul Rand

    PART II Plane (2D) and Space (3D) Symmetry

    Period

    Focus Image

    Question
    Use the formal
    descriptors of plane
    symmetry to describe this
    bathroom tile
    tessellation.

    Your Observations
    Tessellation would be Picking any flower-center as the origin, there's a 90-degree
    rotational symmetry about any such point; or, if you prefer, there's reflection
    symmetry about the horizontal, vertical, and (45-deg) diagonal axes through any
    such point; or, there are translational symmetries along any of those same axes. That
    explains the trot.

    Complete at the end of

    Lecture II-4
    Image 3

    How are you now more


    observant of symmetry in
    your surroundings? Use
    examples.

    The triangle in Image 4 is


    weird. Was Paul Rand
    correct geometry is
    never wrong?

    Symmetry is now observed by me in more depth. A rather deep analysis is done after
    realizing the presence of Symmetry everywhere. For Instance, If I look at a cars alloy
    wheel, instantly I wonder about it shapes, if its a three spoke, I realize the three
    (triad) fold rotation, also, looking at the footsteps of the bird, I realize the concept of
    Glide and how can I place a line in the center of it.

    Geometry is never wrong but art can deceive.


    The first impossible triangle was created by Oscar Reutersvrd, who was born in
    1915 in Stockholm and trained in art by Michael Katz, a Russian immigrant professor
    of Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg..

    Complete at the end of

    Lecture II-10
    Image 4

    Do you believe the world


    around us is completely
    described in 2D and 3D?

    Certainly I Believe that the world around is in 2 or 3 dimensions only. Everything we


    see has 2 dimensions or 3 dimensions to it. There is nothing that can be out of it.
    Hard to disagree with this question. Would admire if you think differently.

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