Week 5

This image is of my best friends and I getting ready before a wedding. It is a candid picture in the midst of the chaos before a wedding. The message that it conveys is movement and preparatory methods. Visually, this message is communicated through the way our bodies are positioned and the candid vibe the image gives off. Some of us are leaning over, one of us is grabbing something, a few are onlooking, and there are things all over the ground. As a candid picture, nobody is looking at the camera. Most the attention is actually focused on what I am doing, which is reaching for the hairspray. Unlike prepared photos, which consist of people usually close together and looking at the camera, this photo is a captured scene from a busy day.

Week 4 Exercise

The first puzzle I chose was this triangle cat puzzle. The mission was the count how many triangles made up this picture of a cat. At first, I counted 21 triangles. I recounted (just to make sure) and I came up with 18. I asked my friend Alex to count how many triangles he could find, and he counted 19. We both used the same method; we started at the top of the cat and worked our way down, making sure to count both the small triangle and the larger triangle. In the end, I believe there are 18 triangles, and Alex accidentally counted 1 more on accident.

The second puzzle I chose was the circle puzzle. The mission of this puzzle was the determine which two colors has the exact equal amount of color showing. This was more of a challenge because all the circles overlapped and it made it hard to determine. This time, Alex and I used different methods to come to our conclusions. I used my eyes and tried to determine the answer strictly based on vision. I squinted my eyes and I chose which two colors seemed to be equal in proportion and size; thus concluding the answer was yellow and green. This method was not very precise, and it probably wasn't the best way to go about it. Alex, on the other hand, used a more logical approach. He studied each circle, determined which circles had 2 overlaps and which circles only had 1. He discovered that the two colors red and green seemed to have the same amount of overlapped circled in their groups.

I opted to only upload one copy of each picture because they were visual puzzles, rather than individual puzzles.

-Shawna England

Week 3 Blog Exercise

This image is the perfect representation of a feature channel image and a visual search. Initially when you look at this image, the eye doesn't quite know where to go because there is so much going on. Most of the area of concentration is directed in the center, thus most of the visual focus is there. As this image pertains to this weeks assignment, it really only relates in that it is a 2D image with a bunch of smaller parts to make one larger image. By using a wide array of colors, a visual evenness is achieved. An image like this is pleasing to the eye because it creates a familiar pattern.

Week 2 Blog Exercise - Top-Down Visual Processing

This image represents top down visual processing in a graphical design aspect for a few reasons. First being, the design points in this image show a severe contrast, giving the illusion that there is a whit square in the center. In actuality, this is four "pac man" like objects organized in such a way to create a double image. Although this is a 2D image, one could argue that it looks like a 3D image simply based on the layered effect it gives off. Visually speaking, your attention is focused in the center, which ironically enough is the exact spot in the image where there is nothing to see.


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