Week 1 Assignment: Drawing in 2D

    This project started fairly simple, but as time went on, I found myself losing patience and losing brain cells. Making the star was what started this, I understood the basics of how to do it, but for some reason, I could not actually do it, until I realized that I needed to make the point sharper and I needed to make sure that the lines on the triangles lined up with the lines of my base pentagon, but I digress. I did learn a lot about the shapes I was using, and I learned to be a bit more efficient in some of the things I did already know how to do. Here is a bit of my learning process:

    This is just an overshot view of what I was doing, I'll go into some more detail as I go. I do have to say, that the easiest shapes that I was dealing with were the original circles and squares, and trimming the four circles around the squares, the last part of the squares with the circle was harder, but I did manage to figure it out, and it was fairly simple.

    These simple circles parts were the easiest to work with, the only thing that gave me a bit of problems was the spacing in between them, which is why that last one looks a little odd. The trimming was something I knew how to use from the prerequisite course for this class, so it went by fairly quick this time around. It did take a little bit of fiddling around with, I kept selecting the wrong parts of the circle because I forgot I could zoom in more.

    These weird circle things started out easy but then took a bit of a difficulty curve, the only reason for that though was that I forgot I could type what I wanted to do and I couldn't find it as a click option on the side menus, the split confused me so I did it a different way:

    

    I simply made a long rectangle more or less in the centre of the shape and then trimmed the parts around it and joined both halves separately to make sure they stayed together for the most part. Honestly, it went much better than I thought, since I also tried to copy and then shrink, and when that didn't work, I tried to remake it, but that did not work either since I couldn't copy it exactly.

    These funky circle things were really fun to work with since I did figure out how to do the offset thing at this point, the only one I had an issue with was the second thing, the first one was too small, so the offset didn't fit in the centre properly, but that was an easy fix by making it bigger and then doing it again, the rest of that was straight forward and fast.

    The starts, as I mentioned before, were the part that gave me the most problems. I tried at first to do it as a one-line star before I realized I couldn't trim anything from it since it was one singular thing. Then I did the first try with the pentagon in the centre and the triangles on the flat parts, but the first of those points was too short, so I redid it, this time with the longer tips. The copy/rotate was easy and simple, but then the fillet part didn't work, I tried for almost half an hour before I realized I was using the wrong version of the fillet, which was the fillet corners, and then it worked the way I needed it to. At one point I did end up trying to see if making the spine things longer would work with the regular fillet but it did not :( it just left it looking like this: 

    
    These were (quite frankly) also a pain to work with. They start out simple enough, splitting the circle, but where it gets weird, is that if you don't get the size of that starting circle right, the spacing between the other ones with the array along curve isn't going to be what you need it to be. I redid that part several times at well since I kept getting that original circle the tiniest bit too big or small multiple times. For this one, I couldn't find how to use the offset, so I improvised:

    I used the split circle and used the curves to sandwich the curve with the array, it took a bit of adjusting so that I could get everything mostly the right shape and then trimmed the parts I didn't need. I'm sure that probably made it more complicated than it needed to be, but what can I say, it worked :D !