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8:08 PM, Wednesday March 3rd 2021

Thank you for the reply, Candlelight! I admit that I found it quite difficult to actually have the boxes rotate (you could probably tell by all of my stray plotting points). I guess I have a few more questions, if you don't mind answering (anybody else feel free to chime in):

  • Should I work on this separate of my current homework/studies (I am currently working on the '250 Box Challenge') or incorporate into my homework?

  • Did I not add enough space for things to rotate and/or was it more based off of line scaling from rotation?

  • Would it help to imagine the final product as circular with the boxes' outward-most lines?

Thanks again!

11:47 PM, Friday March 5th 2021

You can leave these exercises for now, but if you want to you can add some of them to your warm ups before you start homework.

The boxes is more about scaling and orientation than lack of space. The overall shape of all the rotated boxes should be more circular.

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