Journal entry date: 9/7/2020
One way that we applied transformations to the real world was through discussing how video games were made when they were designed by hand in the early 1980s. We went through the process of designing our own video games which consisted of translations, rotations, and reflections that helped navigate the players of the video game. Project
It was important throughout this process that we remember the differences between translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations. Translations are a movements around the coordinate plane. Reflection is where you take your pre-image and reflect them across a point or the y or x axis. Rotations are the movement of the pre image going 90, 180, and 360 degrees clockwise and counterclockwise. Dilations and based with the scale factor of the pre imagine and it getting larger or shrinking.
Transformations can apply to the real world when it comes so architecture, even to the games we play as friends like battle ship.
Journal entry date: 11/2/2020
One way that right triangle trigonometry applies to the real world is through finding the length of distances between 2 points. In geometry we used google maps and created right triangles from different neighborhoods in Atlanta. We used trig. Ratios to determine the length of the distance between the neighborhoods to different resources such as the hospital and grocery store. We then compared the length of these distances to the income in the neighborhoods. This helped to show the inequalities present in many areas in Atlanta.
The project was a real eye opener and a learning opportunity. I loved how I learned the lesson and about where I lived in return. Now I know ways I can try to help around with the inequalities, while leaning.
I usually see and used right triangle trig. and Pythagorean theorem within math and architecture. It helps with the finding the missing side which can lead to greater things.