Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Graph Paper System











































































For my systems project, I took a suggestion that Professor Fick made to me and added to and elaborated it. The rules for this system are quite simple:
1) Go from left to right on a horizontal piece of graph paper.
2) The first page begins with one-by-one triangles (two sides each take up one box, the hypothesis cuts through one box) and each subsequent page adds one more box to each side (page two consists of two-by-two triangles, page three consists of three-by-three triangles, and so on).
3) There can be no stray triangles; every triangle must touch at least one other triangle.
4) Once you reach the edge of the right side of the page (i.e. the last full box on the right side of the page), you can draw more triangles up and/or down along that edge, but you cannot go backwards toward the center and left side of the page.
5) Use purple, yellow, blue, and orange to enhance the designs.

In this sequence of 10 pages, each page looks pretty different because I imagined each page as how different people might approach creating the systems. The use of the same colors for each page helps maintain cohesiveness throughout.

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