Nt1310 Unit 3 Assignment

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1. Briefly explain your steps in completing this project. Did you start with a picture in mind? Did you begin by graphing equations and then looking for something that you could base your design on? How many attempts did it take you?
I first began by running images through my head of popular movies, trying to visualize if any cartoons incorporated trigonometric functions into their characters or objects. I knew that I wanted to draw a Disney cartoon so that my design would be engaging as well as trigonometrically correct. I immediately thought of the balloons from Disney’s “UP” and realized these balloons could be created with sine and cosine functions, as well as their strings from tangent functions. I then took this central idea of the balloons and drew the house from up attached to them. I made sure to incorporate trigonometric functions in the landscape behind so that, although it wasn't
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Did you receive constructive feedback during the peer critique that you were able to incorporate in your final design? If so, give examples. If you were given suggestions and did not take them then please give specific reasons why.
One critique I took was not continuing dotted lines of my functions. I decided to erase some of my line extensions because I wanted to make my drawing more neat and clear.
I decided not to draw the talking dog from “UP,” which was suggested by one of my peers. I decided against this addition because adding a third character might draw attention away from my central idea: the balloons holding the house.
It was also suggested that I draw the ties to the balloons on every balloon; however, I feel that this would make the balloons appear more cluttered and messy, so I did not add the ties. After writing this critique on my paper, my partner: Jared, told me that he actually agreed that adding more ties would make it cluttered. So through verbal collaboration, we both decided that it would look best if I only include the ties on the bottom