Challenge

Build Polygons

Brightly colored triangular tesselated pattern
From the cover of "Eames: Beautiful Details" a book about the designers Charles and Ray Eames. Available at the Eames Office

Build closed shapes that lie in a plane.

  • What is the simplest 2 dimensional shape? What is a simplex?
  • How many types of polygon are there? How can you categories different types of 2 dimensional shape? What is a bow-tie quadrilateral?
  • Who are Euclid and Wassily Kandinsky? What do they have in common?
  • What 2D shapes tessellate the plane? What about the sphere?
  • What was the first legally trademarked logo?
  • How can you create an original graphical logo, emblem, or device for yourself or someone else using polygons as inspiration?

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