Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Orthogonal cube

After creating our logos, we made orthogonal cubes. The root word "ortho" means straight and the root word "gon" means angle. My interpretation of the word orthogonal cube is: A cube with angles perfectly straight to make right angles. This makes sense, because when creating the cube in Adobe Illustrator, we had to move the lines to be exactly perpendicular to each other. If we did not do this, it would not have been a perfect ninety degree angle cube. But the cube actually doesn't have right angles. Each angle is one hundred twenty degrees. This is because it is an illusion. The cube is a 2D object on a screen appearing as a 3D object. Making it was quite simple, it was all copying and pasting lines. It was fun to see the lines turning into a 3D cube. The picture to the left is what my orthogonal cube looked like before I filled it in with color. It's amazing to see the cube "come to life" once color is added to it. If some shading was added, it would look even more real.
Link to tutorial to create the orthogonal cube:http://www.lynda.com/articles/draw-an-orthogonal-cube-in-illustrator-dekes-techniques

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