Patterns of Shape

This goes along with the lesson on splitting of shapes.  Just by rounding edges or changing corners, you can make a square become a circle, or a circle become a triangle.

None of these skills are really that complicated, but when you take them to a bigger scale, you will see that having shapes that you can recognize will indicate what those shapes actually represent.  That's the meaning behind this page, and all of the exercises that you can imagine yourself pursuing, following the path that this page directs you to.

Shape Splitting

This is an example of morphing a shape into multiples of the same shape.  The fact is that shapes have certain mathematic and visual characteristics that cause them to behave differently from eachother.  That's why things in nature also have commonplace behavior based on appearance.  The shape itself dictates how the material behaves, whether it's rock that is breaking from a wall, or a cell that is dividing.  The circles and squares in the molecular structure of these things determine how they connect, and how they break.

Homewerks:  To get better at this, practice dividing circles and squares into multiple circles and multiple squares.  Do a separate exercise involving triangles.  Try not to let the triangle evolve into a square or a circle.