During my free time during school this year, I've been creating some doodles on any graph paper I can get my hands on. Over time, I have amassed a moderate collection of these, and today I finally got around to scanning some of them in. I have 17 of them currently scanned, and want to hear any comments or suggestions the rest of you have. I have named a few, usually related to the limitation/challenge I imposed upon myself. I am interested in any comments or suggestions/tips you guys have, so please share. Some are unfinished, as (especially at the start of the year) each doodle used to take around 2 to 3-ish hours to do, leading to me finishing one (or less) a day. The unfinished usually have enough to see what the end result would look like, however.
I usually start with a 'base', usually a near-regular octagon or a square, and build up off of them. The way I did this has changed throughout the year, and the doodles are in roughly reverse chronological order, with doodles #7 -16 being from the beginning of the year, and 1-6 from much more recently, being from the past couple weeks. If I have any commentary on any quirks or challenges on a specific doodle, it will be in the spoiler containing the doodle. #17 is rather special, as it was selected to be made into a quilt, using white and dark grey. It has a few other peculiarities, which will be explained later.
bases are listed as [shape](side length), followed by any extras it may have.
Sorry about the quality, as the shading can be hard to see and my scanner seems to only export to .jpg.
Newer Doodles
This is a strange one, with the base being hard to determine. A square(4) is possible, but I do not usually erase line segments from a base, and the internal line placements for the base are rather unusual, if so.
This is a Dwarven Rune Doodle.
It menaces with spikes of graphite.
It is encircled with bands of lines.
For this, I started with the line joining the two octagons. From there, I split it into two diagonal segments, both going up as 45 degrees from the vertical. Then, for the 2 new endings, I split those into 4 segments, 2 vertical and 2 horizontal, and this pattern was continued outwards. Where 2 ends met, I cancelled the endings out, and continued on with the remaining endings.
Older Doodles
This uses a strangely large amount of triangles, especially in the outer rings and the middle ring.
This was named such due to the fact that each quadrant is the same as each of its neighbors rotated 90 degrees and inverted colorwise.
This uses a unique base, as it is the only one to use a dodecagon as a starting point.
This is one of the simplest doodles I have done all year. It has a strange charm, however, and I quite enjoy the way it looks.
The reason for all the random junk on this page is due to this being extremely early on, where I was still
working on finding the proper number of 'steps' to make a given ploygon in an octagon, and hadn't cleaned it up.
In addition, this was one of the first doodles of this kind I have done.
This has a few interesting quirks. Firstly, the amount of black and white within the design are exactly equal, with each bit of black being countered by a bit of white, leading to the 'equality' part of the name. Secondly is the profileration of 'hourglass' squares. These aare exactly 1/2 black and 1/2 white, but each half is split into two quarters, leading to 'split' being in the name. The numbers are due to the number of squares being counted in preparation to be made into a quilt.
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