The Prime's Cardboard
The name of the first grader I made my toy for is Feilpe. When we were talking he said that he wanted a transformer and that Optimus Prime was his favorite among other things. The other reason I made Optimus Prime was because I used to watch the transformers and I used to love them.
In the beginning stages, it seemed really difficult to make because I didn’t know how to simplify him. I obviously couldn’t make the one in the movies so, instead I decided on making one based off of the toy. Another challenge I came across was finding a fast way to calculate surface area of one piece like the torso. I started off by doing piece by piece but that took far too long. Instead, I started finding the area of the front and back then measured the perimeter and multiplied that by the width in order to find the surface area of the side. While that made the process go by a bit faster, it still took a while.
Through the difficulties, my idea of that there are always more efficient ways to do things but you might now always see was more enforced. I also learned the formula for finding the area of a trapezoid by splitting one into three triangles and combing their formulas together. I’d never found the area of a shape like the Optimus’s legs before. I knew how but I’d never done it.
It was far more easier finding volume than surface area especially when I already had the area of one face. Surface area is the amount of “skin” or in this case, cardboard, that is visible. While volume is how much space something takes up.
In the beginning stages, it seemed really difficult to make because I didn’t know how to simplify him. I obviously couldn’t make the one in the movies so, instead I decided on making one based off of the toy. Another challenge I came across was finding a fast way to calculate surface area of one piece like the torso. I started off by doing piece by piece but that took far too long. Instead, I started finding the area of the front and back then measured the perimeter and multiplied that by the width in order to find the surface area of the side. While that made the process go by a bit faster, it still took a while.
Through the difficulties, my idea of that there are always more efficient ways to do things but you might now always see was more enforced. I also learned the formula for finding the area of a trapezoid by splitting one into three triangles and combing their formulas together. I’d never found the area of a shape like the Optimus’s legs before. I knew how but I’d never done it.
It was far more easier finding volume than surface area especially when I already had the area of one face. Surface area is the amount of “skin” or in this case, cardboard, that is visible. While volume is how much space something takes up.