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1. golfing curling dog agility and papillons who has earned Life Agility and has been 6th in B C computer background dates back purchased EQ7 we took some virtual quilter I have always and so began designing using When asked to tell us a bit about retirement dream community enjoy quilting The dog is Elbee one of four Time Achievement Award in Dog and 10th in Canada in his group My to the 60 s When my wife Winnifred on line courses and I became a been intrigued with optical illusions EQ72. 3 IE ER ER RT the intersections of the arcs Click the Color tab then back to the a EasyDraw tab to register the nodes or save to the Sketchbook You should now have node points where the arcs cross each other Turn Snap to Grid Points on Worktable OFF Turn Snap to Nodes on Drawing ON 1 Use the Line tool to connect the node point at the intersections of the arcs to the node points at the appropriate sides of the block I will continue 1 i using a horizontally oriented block only so in this case the node points on uz the left and right center points of the block You will be drawing a Figure 3 hexagon inside the circle Figure 3 Block 4 Delete the Arcs o Clean up the design by deleting all the arcs in the design Click on the TELL z z eS a Pick tool hold down the DELETE key and click on all the arc segmentsin 57 t CSCS2C 32C 73 CSCS the design Remember Ctrl Z or EDIT gt Undo to restore parts that were accidently deleted You now have a perfect hexagon Figure 4 Add to your Sketchbook as you can do many things with this Use the Notecard feature to give this block a name so you can keep track of and search for your creations in the future Block Create a solid cube Turn Snap to Grid Points on Wok 55 ON E ribo MCT EA TRON RC HTA AS Snap to Nodes on Drawing should still be ON Draw 3 lines from alternate corners of the Hexagon to the center Figure 5 Click on Color and colour the t
3. HEXAGONS FOR ART AND ILLUSION Lesson by Greg Rehill Editor s note Greg s lesson assumes you ve had experience drawing in EasyDraw So if you try it and find it too difficult you can just open up the project file and resave it in your program and you will not miss having these blocks Thanks Greg If one views a cube be it a sugar cube a die singular for dice or a Rubik s cube you will always see three of the faces The outline of the shape will always have eight sides Being a cube all sides are the same length Each side of the hexagon also forms one side of an equilateral triangle when connected to the center point of the hexagon These principles allow us to create the hexagon using the ARC tool which creates a perfect circle and the LINE tool Each segment of the hexagon equals exactly 2 the size of the block The basic angle for the intersections is 60 a common marking on quilter s rulers To construct the basic hexagon shape which forms the outer lines of the cube it 1s possible to do so using EQ and EasyDraw In the EQ7 project file Hexagon Part I Block 1 is the start of the construction sequence which carries on through Block 16 The remaining blocks are different examples of the cube derived from the basic block completed at Block 16 Block 1 amp 2 Drawing the arcs for the basic Hexagon Starting with a new EasyDraw block set up a square block in this case 8 x seua LEC MU Q a
4. a Set the Horizontal and Vertical Snaps at 16 The Graph Paper Cells ON Horizontal 2 Vertical 2 Snapping Options Snap to Grid Points on Worktable ON Snap to Nodes on Drawing OFF Snap to Lines and Arcs of Drawing OFF Draw 4 ARCS starting at the center point of each side of the block and finishing at the center point of an adjacent side Figure 1 Figure 1 Use the SPACEBAR to flip the curve of the arc if necessary p 155 EQ7 User Manual These 4 arcs will form a perfect circle with four points touching the edge of the block Now you need to decide how the cube will be oriented inside the Block In on ne __ other words which direction would you like the cube to point The cube will TEI touch the outside of the block in only two places Where the next two arcs are drawn will determine the points where the cube is connected to the outer edge of the block Draw 2 ARCS starting at a corner and finishing at the center The inside of ji the curve of the arc should point to the vertical sides of the block for a horizontally oriented block to the horizontal sides for a vertically oriented block Figure 2 for an example for vertical orientation These 2 arcs will form a semi circle Repeat drawing 2 more arcs on the opposite side of the r a block Figure 2 Block 3 Create the basic Hexagon _ _ _ _ _ _ After drawing the ARCS you will notice that there are no node points at
5. hree sectors in contrasting colours to show the effect of the 3 sectors Figure 6 You now havea ee cube Add to Sketchbook Figure 5 Figure 6 Block 6 Add a star Starting with the block created in Block Seas clmas77 gt aneee 4 Open your Sketchbook and Edit the i ere EA en EH TE E Basic Hexagon Block create two ae equilateral triangles by connecting alternate nodes of the Hexagon Figure 8 You now have a 6 pointed star and another hexagon formed in the center of the star Colour as shown Figure 9 P a ei bo mte Figure 8 Figure 9 Block 6 Starring the Cube Repeat what you did in Block 5 to ore 2S ESS SS AE create a solid cube Draw 3 lines to a ee treme the center from the alternate corners of 4 the inner hexagon Figure 10 Colour the outer points one colour and the cube that is formed in the center 3 contrasting colours Figure 11 Your star now has a cube as a center piece Add to Sketchbook Ta es Dirga Edr to a eee t Figure 10 Figure 11 Where to from here In next month s lesson we will use the Basic Hexagon we created in Block 4 to create an Open Faced Cube using the tools available to us in EasyDraw We will also explore the many variations of this cube that will give you a chance to explore the features of EQ while giving you some new techniques to enhance your skills ABOUT GREG Greg lives in Parksville B C himself he writes Parksville is a
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