Clay Math Part III - Kaleidoscope Canes
I’ve been fighting with kaleidoscope canes again. As an apology to my clay muse, here’s a cheat sheet for laying out k’scope canes. It’s basic but it shows an aspect of clay that I love:
Clay squishes.
This is something my math brain forgets when I am sitting and designing. Triangle canes can be difficult to work with - you can use a square edge, like a box, to keep the right angle triangles crisp as you go but sheesh, what about those weird ones for hexagons? No worries, clay squishes.
So we can use a right-angle triangle to make our kaleidoscope cane and then carefully round the edges of the square. Or we can tip our right-angle triangle into the 60° triangle and use that to make a hexagon and carefully round THAT more simply into a circle cane.
Or, we can take our square cane, perhaps the result of the square cane above, tip it a little and use that shape to create our hexagon-circle shape.
I guess I simply needed a little reminding.
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[...] elaine robitaille provides us with a cheat sheet for laying out kaleidoscope canes in her third installment of clay math. [...]
Bless your math minded brain! The math challenged salute you!
[...] The demo this week was on creating kaleidoscope canes. I referenced Elaine (TooAquarius.com)’s Cane Math for helping everyone visualize how to construct the cane with a mirrored, repeated design element. [...]