Re: LOGO-L> New Project

[Frank Caggiano <caggiano@atlantic.net>]

The Book is 'Introduction To String Art'. Dale Seymour Publications.
The isbn is 0-86651-579-8.

Searching for Dale Seymour in hotbot returned a number of hits.

Chapter 1 is 'Curves from Segments in an Angle', that's what I tried to
recreate in StringArt.  He describes how to procure the images using
pencil and paper.  There is no computer programming  in the book. 

The rest of the chapters are:
 
Designs from combined angles
Designs from inscribed polygons
Designs from diagonals and chords
Overlapping designs
Design effects from shading
Rotating geometric designs
Combining techniques - getting creative
Mathematical relationships
Moiré patterns

There is nothing we all haven't seen and tried before but I found having
the patterns reproduced in on place, grouped like they are,  and with
little commentary a jolt to how I thought about them. Plus the book
design and reproductions are very nice, they did a good job of printing.

I see this topic being a great intro to logo programming. Start off
doing the designs with pencil and paper. While the designs you get are
nice it quickly becomes obvious that to get truly great images you need
to have a lot of divisions on the legs. And to combine the separate
elements takes a lot of work.  Once the basic techniques are mastered
then the power of the computer becomes very obvious.  You can
concentrate on the design rather than on the mechanics. 

This could be a great hook for those kids that like doing the graphic
designs but could never get motivatied about computers or logo or math.


regards

KERRB@Magill.UniSA.edu.au wrote:
> Frank,
>  Could we have the full details of this book please. I agree with you about
> Dale Seymour's tessellation books. They are fantastic. I'm about to post some
> student's tessellation work on my web site (in a few days). This is a follow up
> on an earlier discussion where I was arguing it is better to do tessellations
> without the computer.
> 
> --- Bill Kerr

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Frank Caggiano
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