Pizza Problem Showcase

December 5, 2017 Sam Janssen

During the showcase on Thursday, Collin and I reprinted the pieces to better fit our demonstrations. We began by explaining the fundamental basis of the Pizza problem, having even pizza slices that don’t all touch the middle. Once we established the problem, we explained […]

Plus Sign Carpet Fractal

November 13, 2017 Sam Janssen

To start with our carpet fractal, level 1 has 1 square removed from each of the corners creating a plus sign shape. When repeated for a level two, it creates a plus sign made of plus signs, and so on. To find the area, I took the area of the original […]

The Pizza Problem

October 3, 2017 Sam Janssen

For our open project idea, we decided to experiment with the relationships of the “perfect pizza slice” with its self and with the pizza as a whole as a solution to the pizza problem. The goal of the pizza problem is to find how to cut a pizza into same shaped slices that don’t all touch the middle […]

Quaternion Julia

September 4, 2017 Sam Janssen

The first fractal I want to print is the Quaternion Julia fractal. According to an website written by Paul Bourke: “A quaternion has two more complex components and might be written as q = r + a i + b j + c k where r, […]

Hello

September 4, 2017 Sam Janssen

Hey I’m Sam Janssen, a sophomore graphic design major. I have been doing graphic design for 5 years and have created a brand SamJ Studios and you can view my work here or here I’m from Alexandria but I was born in California and after almost […]