User:Noemiino/year3

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NOEMI BIRO 

 0919394@hr.nl 

 Graphic Design

Plotters

Just some research into plotters

AN intro into using plotters with pen: [1]

good description of printing and saving file types for HQ prints [2]

video using the plotter [3]

plotter and sound mutual performance [4]
processing and plotting [5]

An artefact for/on/or about the body

I was interested in balance in the body. I recently started to do yoga and during balancing exercises, I noticed that there is always one side of the body that I felt more balanced about. So, for example, I could balance longer on my left leg than on my right leg.

I started to consider how other parts of my body are in balance in relation to each other. For example, I am right handed so there is a really big imbalance between using my right hand and left hand for activities. I read about Leonardo Da Vinci [6] using both of his hands in perfect sync. This also meant that he was balancing out his right and left brain hemisphere usage, changing between rational and creative thinking.

Da Vinci was ambidextrous, was I going to be disastrous?

I started from the basic motion of writing, coloring, tracing. As input for this I used letters found in magazines and books around me and from the found image I started reproducing it with my right an left hand.

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  Start image

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  First with left hand

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  Result - right & left

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  Embroidered - right & left

I was interested of how a machine would further distort the images that I created so I fed them to the embroidery machine. I was curious whether the machine would be able to correct the small defects that for example my left hand drawn image had due to shakiness and instability. As for the material I choose to transpose the images on socks because they can be worn in either leg functioning the same way, a very ambidextrous material for the body.

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  Start image

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  Right & left drawn

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  Machine is working

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  Embroidered - which is which?

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  Mix & match

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  Mix & match

I also found it was interesting how the embroidery machine can use different patterns to stitch the image is given. I tried out the N because I was not at all satisfied with the big green blob that it was.

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  Result

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  Embroidery programme pattern preview

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  Result

This triggered me to create a series of letters of the alphabet drawn both with my right and left hand. My left hand is really shaky and unprecise but at the end of the experiment, I was already surprised to find that training my hand was making it more balanced. I tried different tools to write and draw.