Notes on a Triangle

Duration: 5

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1966

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: National Film Board of Canada, 1966. Directed by René Jodoin. "In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and sub-dividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a waltz." (nfb.ca) Home transfer from 16mm. Print courtesy of Niagara Artists Centre.

Complete Record: Uses animation to illustrate the versatility of the triangular shape. Shows a single triangle dividing, re-dividing, and re-forming into colorful representations of symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes, including stars, cubes, rhombuses, and parallelograms. Concludes with the multitude of forms returning to the basic triangle., An animation of a single geometric form. A white triangle is divided into three parts which are colored red, yellow and blue. Further divisions of these colors move about and produce many complex designs. , This animated film is a study in triangles that create colorful patterns transitional in form, size, color and design. Kaleidoscopic effects are achieved by abrupt changes in patterns that multiply, divide, or subtract as they blend into each other. Accompanied by music appropriate to the movements.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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