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- General Description of How Projects Fit Into This Course
- You do not have to do every project (see above link for more information), but each project has a date by which it is due, a week or two after we finished talking about the relevant topic.
- Projects will generally be due on Fridays.
- See course policies for my policies on late projects.
- Below is a very brief description of each project, along with due dates, and maximum points available. For a more complete description of any particular project, click on that project's number at the far left.
| Brief Description of project | Due date | Maximum points | |
| 9 | Visit a museum; mathematically discuss | 4/24/15 | 15 |
| 10 | Read a book or article on math in art | 4/24/15 | 50 or more (long book) |
| 30 (Flatland or similar) | |||
| 5-15 (10-20 page article) | |||
| 1-5 (shorter article) | |||
| 1 | Create work rigorously using proportion | 2/13/15 | 30 (15 or more measurements) |
| 15 (7-10 measurements) | |||
| 5-10 (fewer measurements) | |||
| 2 | Analyze Seurat's La Parade for evidence | 2/27/15 | 25 (>= 16 good prospects) |
| of the Golden Ratio | 15 (10 good prospects) | ||
| 7 (5 good prospects) | |||
| 3 | Create work incorporating Golden Ratio | 3/6/15 | 50 (extensive/varied use and |
| and/or Fibonacci numbers | and analysis of the resulting | ||
| work) | |||
| 4 | Draw house using given | 3/20/15 | 30 (if extensively) |
| 3D coordinates and perspective | Postponed:3/27 | personalized) | |
| formulae | 15 (if no personalization) | ||
| 5 | (Group; you'll divide the score among you) | 3/27/15 | 120 (divided) (60 or more points) |
| Graph a perspective image of a room, by | 105 (divided) (40 points) | ||
| collecting 3D points and using perspective | 75 (divided) (for 20 points), etc | ||
| formulae | |||
| 6 | Create work using perspective techniques | 5/10/15 | 35 (extensive/varied use and |
| developed in class | analysis of viewing position) | ||
| 7 | Create work of anamorphic art | 4/10/15 | 25 (create grid & find viewing distance) |
| 15 (find viewing distance for given grid) | |||
| 10 (art alone) | |||
| (Optional) Perspective grid for Project 7 | |||
| (Optional) Corresponding Straight grid | |||
| 8 | Create a fractal using the recursive | 4/24/15 | 30 (if 3-4 steps & find dim.) |
| process | 15 (if 3-4 steps) | ||
| 11 | Read Flatland; write a description of | 5/1/15 | 40 (substantial and sound, from book) |
| constraints on life in 2D | (20 if read Flatland for Proj 10) | ||
| 20 (substantial, sound; from movie) | |||
| 12 | Construct "unfolded" hypercube, | 5/1/15 | 20 (3D & correctly colored) |
| identifying connecting faces | |||
| 13 | Write a speculation on life in the 4th | 5/1/15 | 25 (sound & creative) |
| dimension, based on sound math |
Janice Sklensky
Wheaton College
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Science Center, Room 1306
Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
TEL (508) 286-3973
FAX (508) 285-8278
sklensky_janice@wheatoncollege.edu
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