The legitimate purpose of this project was to reflect the use of shapes and figures in nature. For example, hexagons may just appear as a 6 side polygon, but they are used for bees to live on and produce honey for human sugar intake. Ande posted a tutorial on how to create an Islamic star design, which was used as the puzzle piece that you'd base the whole tessellation around. I then decided to take a celestial star approach because it made the project worthwhile for me, and incorporated a subject that I enjoy learning about in my personal life (astrology).
|