MODELLING PATTERN CONFIGURATIONS

In order to explore the pattern and define it from different aspects I started making models to bring in reality the hexagon complexity. Based on the rules which the pattern follows, the 3d is formed through modelling.

I isolated an hexagon to begin with. I used thread/cotton as a material in order to achieve the shapes of the distorted hexagon.

PATTERN ALTERATIONS PART II

After my previous alterations on the hexagon complexity patterns and the manipulations on the basic grid in five ways by giving five different surfaces, I wanted to explore new rules in order to give the sense of 3D. My starting point was the last manipulation, alteration V, where I noticed that the distorted grid and thereafter the hexagons are look like a perspective drawing, giving the sense of a 3D model.

In order to finalise the alteration of the hexagon pattern and to start explore it as a model, I wanted to make the 2D drawing of the pattern to look like more like a 3D.

By following the distorted grid, I drew lines in the interior shapes that have been created between the hexagons in order to highlight the depth and the height of the elements. The pattern stops being a surface and starts to give the sense of scale and space.

PATTERN ALTERATIONS

After analysing and defining the geometry and symmetry of the hexagon pattern I started to explore the pattern through five alterations. I defined five rules where the pattern is following in order to create new homogeneous and heterogeneous patterns based on geometry. The main rule is the pattern, the hexagon complexity, to follow the grid. All my interventions are based on the grid, axis x and y are distorted and manipulated in order to explore the shapes of an hexagon.

Alteration I

The geometrical grid is manipulated, all the lines on the axis y are distorted by keeping straight lines towards different directions. On the right of the above diagram is the result, shows how the pattern changed and how different is its geometry.

Alteration II

Having as a starting point the previous pattern, I explored the pattern by changing again the axis y. The axis y is manipulated differently and the lines are curved.

Alteration III

The pattern is explored again through the alterations of axis y. The lines are changing and the pattern is creating complicated shapes.

Alteration IV

In this pattern I started to combine the changes of the Alteration I on axis y with the axis x. The axis x is changed, they are straight lines but facing different directions.

Alteration V

Based on the previous pattern, I explore this pattern more by making the lines of axis x and y more curved.

PATTERN RESOLUTION

The pattern is based on an hexagon complexity and therefore on its symmetry. Each set of hexagons are placed next to each other in order to create a frequency.

In order to analyse and define the rule behind the pattern, I isolated the hexagons

and then I examined the geometry. Each set is consisted by eight hexagons. Each hexagon is combined by a set of hexagon in its interior. The six edges of every hexagon are attached on the centre of each vertices of the exterior hexagon. Every set is attached next to another on the left and right edges.