Nowadays, improving comprehension and usage of the instrumental function of computers is important in pattern design education nowadays, where using computers in designing is generalized. Specifically, instead of the skills in using general-purpose so ...
Nowadays, improving comprehension and usage of the instrumental function of computers is important in pattern design education nowadays, where using computers in designing is generalized. Specifically, instead of the skills in using general-purpose software, attention should be paid in the understanding of technical principle of computer programs for pattern design because it can improve learners’ expressivity. This study was done to contribute the usage of the computer as a tool to expend the value of human beings by embracing technology and instruments with positive perspective. Difficulties exist in precise comprehension in basic technology because the principle or structure of the current digital technology is usually invisible. Also, the expressivity will be limited without the accurate understanding. Therefore, the understanding of the instrumental function is important as the base for expanding the application of the technology as well as the possibility in expressivity.
This study focuses on developing an educational model to help learners’ comprehension thorough the theories, visible diagrams and expression, etc., which can expand the instrumental value of quantitative model means. In addition, it aims at the comprehension in the computer technology base, necessary to pattern design, and the improvement in creative expressivity through the comprehension. Following tasks were examined to meet the goals:
1. Researching the actual condition and consideration of educational materials of symmetry
2. Researching the learners’ comprehension in mathematical educational materials
3.Examining the composition of the Korean traditional patterns by using mathematical symmetry
4.Developing and elaborating the educational model for 17 kinds of mathematical symmetry through systemizing the compositions of Korean traditional patterns
The results showed the lack of learners’ comprehension in models related to the mathematical educational materials. It is also found that the mathematical educational materials are deficient to be used as visual data to understand the methodology or to be applied to the expressivity because they have only conceptual description. Specially, if the formulized 17 mathematical symmetry is provided to learners with easily apprehensible and applicable forms, it will expand the learners’understanding in technology as well as the expressivity of pattern designs since it is the technical principles of patterns produced by computes.
For the formulized 17 mathematical symmetry, the Korean traditional patterns, which were considered to be the very basic materials in pattern design, were focused, and its possibility as a modeling technique for traditional patterns was revealed through the interpretation of the formation of the patterns as mathematical symmetry. The formations of traditional patterns were classified by using this pattern symmetry; moreover, the characteristics of the traditional patterns, drawn from the classifying process, were synthesized and systemized by the distinctive formation of the Korean traditional patterns. Based on the results, the 17 mathematical symmetry was proposed as an educational model by producing a two-dimensional diagram and video clips to help the learners’ comprehension.
In formalizing the traditional patterns, Korean traditional patterns were systemized through examining the relationship between the patterns and 17 symmetry operation and formation. Besides, an educational model and a digital archive were developed based on this. The concrete contents for pattern design are expected to become not only the medium for pattern design learners in understanding the Korean identity but also the catalyst to trigger the learners’ senses in design. Furthermore, the contents are considered to be useful data in expanding the learners’ expressivity based on improving the comprehension of the technical principles of the computer.