Anamorphic Drawing
Dylan Williamson
04/16/14
Period 6
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Anamorphic means a projection or perspective that makes the viewer use a certain device to project a shape at a certain angle to create the same image at a different angle. The word "anamorphosis" is taken from the Greek root, ana-, which roughly translates to again and from the word morphe, which means shape or object.
To create the drawing we needed a projection device, for this we used a mirror that was supported by a box. We than drew an image onto the mirror, ours was a three-dimensional star and sat in a chair so that we could fit all of the stars projection onto our paper. Our paper was a piece of white poster board poster board, which was just large enough to fit the projection. We then took turns covering one eye and staring through that projection to try and pin points on to the paper, for this we used pennies. Then when all the necessary points were graphed we used pencil and ruler to draw our shape between the points. For our final step we shaded the shape with colored pencil, and outlined in sharpie.
A large challenge for our group was getting the points correctly graphed. Sometimes when we thought we had all of them done there would be three that didn’t line up so we would have to fix those, but then another point would be wrong. We had to redo the image about four times before it was perfect. We made it the best it could be by redoing the dots until they were all perfectly aligned. We also found it is much easier if one of the people draws, and the other graphs, that way projection the angle stays the same.
04/16/14
Period 6
dwdp.weebly.com
Anamorphic means a projection or perspective that makes the viewer use a certain device to project a shape at a certain angle to create the same image at a different angle. The word "anamorphosis" is taken from the Greek root, ana-, which roughly translates to again and from the word morphe, which means shape or object.
To create the drawing we needed a projection device, for this we used a mirror that was supported by a box. We than drew an image onto the mirror, ours was a three-dimensional star and sat in a chair so that we could fit all of the stars projection onto our paper. Our paper was a piece of white poster board poster board, which was just large enough to fit the projection. We then took turns covering one eye and staring through that projection to try and pin points on to the paper, for this we used pennies. Then when all the necessary points were graphed we used pencil and ruler to draw our shape between the points. For our final step we shaded the shape with colored pencil, and outlined in sharpie.
A large challenge for our group was getting the points correctly graphed. Sometimes when we thought we had all of them done there would be three that didn’t line up so we would have to fix those, but then another point would be wrong. We had to redo the image about four times before it was perfect. We made it the best it could be by redoing the dots until they were all perfectly aligned. We also found it is much easier if one of the people draws, and the other graphs, that way projection the angle stays the same.