In this project, our group has decided to explore these two elements of design: depth and shape. The prevalence of shape in art would make one think that the concept has been over explored. However, Professor Kluber's second visit to our class indicates that this is not the case. Some of the images that he exhibited made ingenuous use of shapes and hence we have decided to further explore the idea. Art is always more vibrant when it combines several elements of design, therefore, we have decided to combine shape and depth. These two elements combined can enable us to create varied images – all of which will have significant aesthetic qualities and be visually stimulating.


We will start with a shape and manipulate balance and weight to create an illusion of depth. As a simple thought experiment, the reader should think of having two large squares, one centered slightly to the left of the canvas and the other centered slightly to the right of the canvas. For each square, we impose a slightly smaller square rotated slightly by an angle. Repeating this technique several times, while decreasing the size of the square each successive time, the illusion of a well into the canvas will be created. It is not hard to see how this might be made more interesting. By having the successive squares in each large square tend toward each other, we can have them meet somewhere in the center of the canvas imitating artist depictions of wormholes in Space.


To accomplish this, we have acquired a wealth of algorithmic techniques in this class that will enable us to achieve our goal. The three we plan to use in our project are turtle graphics, conditional statements and naming local bindings. Using turtle graphics gives us several parameters each ranging over several values that we can vary. We can vary the scale factor, the number of sides of the polygon, the angle of rotation, the number of initial polygons, and the color in which they are rendered. We plan to combine these elements from our proposal to produce a 1000 images by using the modulo multiplication method. This method basically uses the fact that if the LCM of a certain number of relatively prime numbers is greater than a thousand than those relatively prime numbers can be used to make greater than a 1000 distinct groups, which we do in this case by using the modulo procedure. We will, hopefully, combine these parameters in clever ways that will produce a thousand distinct images that all employ depth in interesting ways.