Write Up:
My process for creating my holiday card graph was quite simple. First, I graphed my self portrait starting from the top and working down. I kept my entire body positioned with the centre being the y-axis and since my entire drawing is symmetrical, having the y-axis as the centre simplified the transformations I needed to do for both sides of my body. Next, I graphed “Merry Christmas,” with each letter having a height of 2 units, width of 1.5 units and a spacing from one another of 1 unit, however, the “M” & “S” have different dimensions because they were not aesthetically pleasing otherwise. I then graphed the snowman, which I did because without the card looked bland and finally I added a winter themed background to give the entire card an even better holiday feel. My strategy for graphing was to keep my self portrait positioned in the centre and transform all other aspects of the card to the right, that way I never had to deal with any negatives except when I graphed the snowman who is positioned entirely in the 4th quadrant. My other strategy was to use function notation for all functions which I would use more than once, so I would not have had to rewrite each equation multiple times. For the equations which I could not use function notation the copy/paste keyboard shortcuts worked well enough. The difficulties that I encountered while graphing my card were the shading and getting the equations to line up exactly. For the shading it was only a matter of changing the domain and range until it appeared in the exact area that I wanted, then, for getting the equations to line up to my liking I simply plugged and played with the numbers until the two equations joined perfectly at one location.