Monday's Group      When we came to school we were all excited. Glenn drew a map of the hall and then he made it 3D. We learned lots of new words like vertex; which is where two lines meet. Primitive; simplest form, and radius; the distance from the middle of a circle to the edge.        Glenn told us all about computers. he mentioned 3D which stands for three dimensional. We looked at a rectangle, it was 2 dimensional.  He showed a cube and he was using the mouse to move the view. You could see down and when it was moving it was like a lift and it felt like we were going down.         We invented Cloud 9 from arcs, twelve parts from twice the bits of Glenn's hat, but we changed the size to 14. It looked like a trifle. It looked quite small when it was on the computer but when we started to make the object it was very big.          We drew a carrot shape that was a segment of cloud 9. Anne put a robot on a massive sheet of paper, it was connected by a wire to the computer.         Lauren "took it for a walk" and it drew the carrot. Anne told us it would be as big as the hall, I couldn't believe her, that sounded a bit weird.      Understanding 3D       "3D means something that sticks out, 2D means something that is flat."   "We talked about the box, and whether it was the length, the depth or the height, and Glenn said that the three d stands for three dimensional."     "We made 2D shapes that folded like a paper aeroplane and they made 3D shapes."   "Perspective is like walking away from something and as you do it gets smaller."   "People are all 3D."       CLOUD 9 in 3D         The CAD System         "They made a net which is something 3D opened out."   "We've been drawing stuff on the computer, and Glenn does a shape and turns it into a net."   "He was drawing the design and making it 3D"   "Robert pushed the mouse and he showed a bird's eye view and whatever you wanted to see."   "Glenn and Anne showed us how to work on the computer. We drew pictures like shapes, three sided, all different shapes."   "We can print shapes on the computer with a turtle"         Wednesday's Group        We talked about 2D and 3D. 3D means it sticks out and it's got width and length and depth like a swimming pool. Axis means the centre of a circle and diameter is a line going halfway across.    We planned a torus and we shaped it on the computer.     The torus was made out of sixteen cigar shapes.        Anne wrote on the computer and we had a lead from the computer to the turtle. It went to the turtle and the turtle drew it for us.                ARTSTATION HOMEPAGE