Links for perspective and geometric drawing + tesselating

While the following information is especially useful to 8th graders who are learning some perspective and visualizing techniques in art, any age student, including adults can have fun with the links. If the links aren't active on this page, you may cut and paste the URLs into the address bar of your browser.

http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/start.html         This link will bring you to an interactive site where you can design a room interior using "One Point Perspective."

http://members.westnet.com.au/molinasantos/space.htm#     This site gives you many menu selections to choose from. Click on "Orthogonal Drawing" and start with number 3, then try number 2, followed by number 1 for an easy way to use the interactive 3-D quizzes.  We have found that the lower number selection (1) is harder than the higher number (3). Play around!  Try other selections on this site.

Resources and visuals of buildings for you to examine to help "seeing" architecture as a form of 3-D geometry:

http://greatbuildings.com  (Architecture Through the Ages)

www.greatbuildings.com

www.archkidecture.org

For sites related to TESSELATING:

http://mathforum.org/varnelle/patterns.html      (Interactive fractals---quite easy)

http://morethanmath.org/gridWshapes.htm     (Interactive tiling program--easy to medium challenge)

http:/mathcentral.Uregina.ca/RR/database/RR.09.96/archaml.html    (medium-to-advanced challenge: lesson 10 shows how to make paper tesselations)

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