T-Shirt Shadow Prints

Objective

Create a design that when inverted, will look appealing when printed with sunlight-activated dye on a T-shirt.

Here are some photographs of what this looks like:

What you’ll need to begin

• The Playgrounds app installed on your computer
• Another copy of the Sketches Template added to your list of playgrounds, renamed to be titled T-Shirt Shadow Print
• Graph paper
• Writing instruments, including a ruler or straight edge
• An image to reproduce; possibilities include:
  • famous landmarks line art
  • cityscapes line art
  • geometric animal art
  • line art to create a sense of perspective
  • optical illusion art

Success criteria

I know I’ve been highly successful when…

• I made a hand-drawn plan, including a scale, some notes about how to get started, and have identified where there are repeated patterns (to use loops and functions with).
• I could apply order of statements, loops, and functions to write compact code whereever possible.
• I wrote human-readable code.
• I created a product over several days or classes, acting on feedback received from peers and my teacher.
• I made regular backups of my code by making duplicates of my playground file.
• I shared my progress regularly in my portfolio on Notion and tagged entries by learning goal.

Exemplar – Plan

NOTE

This is largely a good plan, but it does not have any notes about where functions or loops might be applied. The student might have added windows the silhouette of this image, and used loops and a function to draw those windows.

Reflection prompts

When you have finished the code for this task, please complete the Coding Task – Final Entry template, and be sure to respond to these prompts…

1. Where in your code did you make use of loops? What parts of your drawing did those loops help to make?
2. What were some of the most common syntax errors you ran into? How did you resolve them?
3. It is normal for a program’s final output to sometimes vary from the original plan. Was that true in your case? If so, in what ways?

Due date

Section 1: Mr. Jones’ class

In order to return completed T-shirts to you before the Thanksgiving Long Weekend, we will need to be transferring prints on the following dates:

• Wednesday October 2
• Thursday October 3

IMPORTANT

That means everyone must complete their final portfolio entry for this task by Tuesday October 1 at 10 PM, so that Mr. Jones has time to create transparencies of your images so that you can make your shirts. This is a hard deadline, please – no exceptions.

Section 2: Mr. Gordon’s class

In order to return completed T-shirts to you before the November Long Weekend, we will need to be transferring prints on the following dates:

• Thursday October 31
• Friday November 1

IMPORTANT

That means everyone must complete their final portfolio entry for this task by Wednesday October 30 at 10 PM, so that Mr. Gordon has time to create transparencies of your images so that you can make your shirts. This is a hard deadline, please – no exceptions.