Original Picture:

My Desmos Picture:

Reflection:

This Desmos art project was a journey with ups and downs. It challenged my critical, creative and logical thinking by giving me tasks that took a lot of thinking. The process started smoothly as I had a little experience from my previous Desmos project. It was definitely a challenge as I had to apply the different functions I had learnt in class in this project. I had a tough time understanding the Exponential function and how I could insert it in my picture but after some analyzing I was able to find the solution. My project outline was nearly done when I realized that none of my lines were accurately connected. They all either overlapped each other or had tiny gaps. I started to panic as I didn’t what to do and tried countless methods to make them connect but nothing worked. Thankfully, with Ms. Hubbard’s help I was able to find a solution to the problem. The solution was finding the slope of the two lines that didn’t connect by using the “y2-y1/x2-x1” formula and creating a new equation using the slope. It was a lengthy process and I redid my line to make sure every single line connected.

When I was happy with the outline, I began the detailing to make sure my Desmos picture is accurate to the original picture. After, I started colouring/shading my picture and made sure my colours were similar to the ones in the original picture. I used a website called, “Colour Picker” and created new colours to add to my Desmos project. Next, I refined my picture even more to make sure all my functions are labelled properly, if I had any unshaded regions and checked whether I used all 7 functions.

Everything worked out well in the end and I am extremely happy with the final product. This project has taught me so much more about functions and transformations and it feels amazing to create a picture myself.