| Dsc 121 | Fall 2000 | Rev 05 Sep 99 |

04 Foundation Meeting Notes

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14:40 Mon 13 Sep

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Calendar
    Week 4 Studios 07 and 08
    Week 5 Studios 09 and 10
    Week 6 Studios 11 and 12
    Week 7 Studios 13 and 14
    Week 8 Studios 15 and 16

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Announcements

School and Foundation Reviews this semester

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Dean's Welcome (J.Meunier)

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Review Week 02 and Week 03

FAQs

Do my solutions have to match the exercise examples? 

All of our exercises progress from little or no choice to mostly choice. The examples
show one possible solution. Your solutions do not have to match the examples if
your solutions satisfy the exercise criteria. However, you must support and communicate
your decisions. 


What is the best material to use for the Unit 1 exercises? 

The interval studies materials are cut paper, or black gesso and white gesso, or black
plaka and white plaka. Designer color works well, but it is more expensive, and it is
not permanent like the other paint types. 


Can you explain simplex, duplex, and complex? 

Unit 1 and Unit 3 contain the ideas simplex, duplex, and complex. Simplex, as we
use it, means a single something, for example, a tube color, or a progression in one
direction. Duplex, as we use it, means a double something, for example, one color
mixed from two colors, or two progressions in opposite directions. Complex, as we use it,
means a multiple something, for example, one color mixed from more than two colors,
or progressions in multiple directions. 

In Unit 1 exercises, for example, the simplex progressions have black intervals and white
intervals that progress in the same direction, for example left-to-right. The duplex
progressions have black intervals and white intervals that progress in opposite directions,
for example, black intervals progress left-to-right, and white intervals progress
right-to-left. The complex progressions have black intervals and white intervals that
progress in opposite directions in multiple layers, for example, simplex on duplex. 


Must the polyhedra models be solid? 

We compared the terms solids and volumes, and recognized that although we use the term
Platonic solids we are actually making volumes. You may choose to make solid models, but
it is unnecessary. 
		

Can you explain the Unit 3 exercises 4.1? 

The 3.4 Exercises concern relationships among ranges (gamuts) between the light
extreme (white) and the dark extreme (black). A gamut is what color science calls a range.
Exercise .4.1.4, for example, calls for a grey (any grey you choose to mix) that lies
within the lightness gamut of the simplex colors. (See exercise .4.1.1.) The exercise also
calls for a mixing formula (a recipe) for your chosen grey so that you can remix that
exact grey in future exercises. 

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Obligations

    Allocation and Selection
        7 days x 24 hrs = 168 hrs wk
        168 hrs wk - 56 sleep hrs = 112 hrs to allocate
    
    Course Load and Courses
        DSC 101
        DSC 121
      x DSC 236 x - not for first semester
        Eng 101
        Mat 117
        GS: people courses, writing/speaking, computer science.
        Check Business minor 
    
    Work Load Formula
        CrHr x 3 = B
        CrHr x 4 = A
       (CrHr x 3) + Wrk = 60 hrs wk maximum
        (15 x 3) + 15 = 60 hrs wk
        (15 x 4) + 15 = 72 hrs wk

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How we do work
    D = demonstrate (your ability)
    S = support     (your decisions - w/o preference)
    C = communicate (your knowledge)
    
Think and Draw
  
Think about what you do and how you do it;
Think about what you say and how you say it;
Think about what you think and how you think it.

Three learning ways
    1) from your efforts
    2) from your colleagues
    3) from your faculty

Cooperative matching effort
    X------------>O  Teacher centered
    X----->|<-----O  Meeting halfway
    X--->     <---O  Matching effort
    X--------------  Cooperative overlapping matching effort
    --------------O> 
    
Three people types:
    (1) those who make things happen; 
    (2) those who let things happen; and 
    (3) those who ask 'what happened?'
    
Project and time management
    concurrent projects
    
    | acceptance -> flex time -> targets -> closure -> END |
    
    See Work Plan link

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Questions

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