All 3 of my kaleidoscopes use bi-axial
symmetry. The shapes caused by the bi-axial symmetry made each picture unique
as it adds a nice structure to base the rest of the picture on. The strong part
of my pictures are the structures created from the shapes caused with bi-axial
symmetry. I could have used something other than the bucket tool to get colors
into the picture.
I used a lot of
triangles formed from the polygonal lasso tool in order to do most of the very
back parts of the pictures and to make sure certain shapes were bi-axial when
entering the center horizontal and vertical axis. The magic wand tool was to
get more than just geometrical shapes so the pictures could have something
unique to them. The easiest part of the project was lining the different shapes
up to form the symmetry. The most difficult part was using the lasso tools
because of how they would sometimes be off when trying to make a base and
height triangle of 5 inches perfectly which would then cause gap issues which
I'd have to fix.
I achieved the
goal of performing symmetry by making sure each shape would be symmetrical to
then allow the picture to be bi-axial. I would do the coloring differently
because instead of just replacing colors with one color, it'd be better to do
shading of different colors with each object. I'd rate my effort a 7/10 because
I feel like the pictures could've had more going on but i wasted too much time
figuring out how to use the tools in the first 2 classes which forced me to
rush out the kaleidoscopes.
