Honors Geometry

A Day in the Life of My Geometry Bug

Waterfall angular Polygon was a very lonely bug.  Most bugs just called her Polly.  Not many bugs talked to her and often times she was made fun of for her large figure.  She had a twin bug named Mikaelagon who was very mean and most of the time she was the one that started the jokes about her sister.  The only bug friend she had at the time was Jesus.  He was always there for her and He was her only friend. One day, another bug in her class, Pipagon (also known as Pip), came up and started a conversation.  They soon became best friends and did everything together.  More and more bugs started hanging out with Polly and she became very popular, which caused her to have a very proud spirit.  A few weeks later, in Geometry class, Polly started making fun of her best friend, Pip.  Pip started crying and was very upset.  Polly, at first, didn’t care that she had hurt her best friend’s feelings but after a few days of no communication between them she felt really bad about what she had done.  She wanted to make it right so the next time she saw Pip, she apologized to her.  Most bugs thought Pip was a nerd, so when Polly apologized to her, all of her other bug friends got mad and ditched her.  But she came to realize that all the other popular bugs weren’t a good influence on her life and that the only friend she really needed was Pip.  Even though they had an argument, it helped them become better bug friends.  And still, to this day, they sit in Geometry class, cheering each other on and making each other laugh, just hoping that they’ll make it till the end of the class without dying.

A day in the life of my Geometry Bug

My bug that I have created is called the “TRI-ANGULAPOD BUG”. He is a shy bug with many different shapes that go about him. He lives in tunnels that he makes out of the ground that he digs with his Mandible’s, these tunnels are called Shy-holes. My bug uses these holes to escape from his most feared predator, the Scorpion. The only place in the world that my bug is found in is in Egypt beside the Nile River. The only thing that my bug eats is small fish that he finds in the Nile River.

One day while Mr. Tri-angulapod was eating a baby fish that he had caught in the Nile River; a Scorpion was watching him from behind a cactus. And right when he was done eating his fish the scorpion had jumped out from behind the cactus and started running at him at lightning speed. So Mr. Tri-angulapod started running as fast as he could, but the scorpion was gaining on him. So he jumped into one of his Shy-holes that he made a long time ago and it turned out that the scorpion could not manage his way into the hole.

Mr. Blokus’ Adventure

Whoosh! Down came the giant mechanical bird that was trying to eat Mr. Blokus. Mr. Blokus is a mechanical beetle made of lego cubes and rectangular prisms with a couple of planes here and there. “That was close,” he said as he ran to the shelter of a nearby rock. His home was only ten feet away but he couldn’t get there because of the bird. “I need to distract him,” he said. He soon had an idea. He would take a big bunch of grass and make it into a shape that looked somewhat like him. He thought it wouldn’t work because of the color but then he remembered that birds cant see color, mechanical ones that is. Then he would throw it out in the open on one side of the rock and escape to his home on the other side of the rock wile the bird was busy with the grass. His plan worked and the bird didn’t even notice till Mr. Blokus was walking into his home.

A day in the life of my Geometry Bug-The Story of Pipagon

Pipagon was the star bug of the British circus. She was the main entertainment of the whole circus. People would come from far and wide just to see her perform. They would admire her gorgeous pentagonal body, and cylindrical legs.  Pip could fly from one object to another, doing back flips and front flips with her beautiful oval wings. All other bugs wished that they could be as famous and talented as Pip.  The audience’s favorite of her acts was when she would chase a particularly fat lion tamer around and around the circus.  The audience would roar with laughter, and shout loudly, “Pip, Pip, Pip!”

For a while, she stayed as the star of the circus, but soon a new bug took her place as the best bug around. The bug’s name was Charlotte, and she was a spider. She could weave such beautiful webs that the audience would just stand in awe. After Charlotte came to the circus, no one would pay attention to Pipagon and her back flips.

It was after a particularly awful day, when it happened. Pip had just overheard two people discussing how boring her act was compared with Charlotte’s act. She started crying, and big fat tears rolled off of her small face. When suddenly, a net came at her and she was caught inside it. Pip was put in a cage, and stuffed into big, metal thing that rocked around. For many weeks she suffered inside the ship. When she was removed from the horrible metal thing, she found herself in a building with big cement walls. After listening to other people’s conversations, she discovered that she was in a school, and more specifically she was in Geometry class.

Now Pip was a very smart bug; she had gone through Bug School with flying colors. She did her best in Geometry, and was soon top of the class. In the class, there was another bug named Polly. Polly didn’t have any friends, so Pipagon hung out with her and they soon became the best of friends.

All of Pip’s life, she had been the star. When that was taken away, she didn’t know what to do with her life. But Pip found something that was more important than being famous. Pipagon found a friend who would be with her through everything. She learned that no matter how famous she was, if she didn’t have a friend, she was missing out on something very special. 

Cylipheres Trapetangle-Lycaenidae Riodinidae

After years of searching, finally the least common bug on earth is found. Yes, you guessed it, a Cylipheres Trapetangle, or “CT” for short. CT can spend his days on land or flying through the air. He is able to withstand the coldest climates because of his unusual fluffy abdomen. CT’s diet consists of mostly fruits, although sometimes he’ll eat certain types of plants. His trapezoid shaped wings allow him to soar through the air at amazing speeds, and his spherical head allows him to move freely in whatever direction he wants to look in. His wings may look fragile to the human eye, but you can see the other geometric figures carefully connected in the inner parts of his wings. His eyesight is almost nonexistent at nighttime, so his neon coloring gives him a glow so that he can see! Because of this glow however, there is only one CT left on this earth. Every insect is drawn to the irresistible neon colors and cannot resist CT, but when it comes to larger bugs, CTs go to a better place.

He does have a unique defense strategy to keep him safe however, venom that burns a human’s flesh in seconds. While capturing this bug to bring to show you today, I was bitten on my finger, resulting in terrible pain. There is an anecdote known to treat this venom, but it is very acidic in itself. Don’t be alarmed, CTs are very content creatures, and tend to be scared of humans. So if you ever happen to be in the jungles of the Amazon, try to find a CT, and let your mind run free into the jungle of Geometry.

The Spiral Skipper-Polyhelicos Hesperidia

This unusual insect rarely seen to man is actually a distant cousin of the butterfly. It is different however because its wings do not flap, they actually spin therefore “propelling” it into the air. These spectacular insects live on the southernmost Galapagos Island. They have two main defenses against their predators, such as the Blue-footed Booby, it flies low to the ground to avoid detection, and if they are found they have a bubble of phosphorous to scare off the birds. Strangely enough they only eat one thing on the planet, Scalesia or commonly called here the daisy tree.

For the Spiral Skipper’s body I have a cylinder made of cardboard in which I have placed a remote control helicopter to give it a unique aspect. Spheres are used for the insect’s eyes and head, and a narrow piece of rectangular paper makes up its thin straw. As a tail I have used a cone, and for balancing purposes have allowed the blinking light on the helicopter’s tail to stick out. The real reason that it does not fly high is because its tail is heavier than its head so if he went high he would spin out of control. It also does not get high because its large body gets in the way of the air flow therefore not allowing the propellers to give it the proper thrust.

Symmetrioullus Cylinderous

Have you ever come across Symmetrioullus Cylinderous? If you have not, Symmetrioullus Cylinderous, a.k.a. Syms, is an insect that looks very similar to an ant. He is black, with three body parts, two antennas, six short legs, and a stinger. Syms has circles for eyes, and cylinders make up his three body parts. Syms is also segmented. Syms lives inside the bark of trees. During the day, Syms sleeps; but during the night, he crawls out to indulge on the leaves and twigs of his home. He eats at night so that he can blend in with the darkness. If he were to eat during the day, due to his color, he would not be that hard to locate on the brown bark. Due to his short legs, he is not a marathon runner. If predators were to find him, he would not be that hard of a catch for them. Since he is round, he cannot squeeze that far into the flat bark; therefore, he is not that far of a stretch for a predator’s mouth or tongue. If Syms is asleep while a predator comes, he is eaten because it takes too long for his brain to process that another animal is there; therefore, he is two seconds too late in using his stinger to get away. Once he does use his stinger, it falls out; and another stinger does not grow back until two weeks later, making him an even easier prey. How bad does he sting? Well, his sting is not poisonous. So you will not die. His sting generally swells up to the size of a golf ball, due to the puss inside. The only way to get rid of the swelling is to take a hot needle and poke it three days after the sting because it takes three days for the puss to stop forming.

To make Syms, I took a pencil, which is a hexagonal prism; and I wrapped black pipe cleaners, which are cylinders, around the pencil, using more in some places to make the body parts distinct. Once the pipe cleaners where in place, the body parts were segmented and in the shape of a cylinder. I used more pipe cleaners to make the legs, stinger, and antennas, making them cylinders as well. Syms ‘s eyes are circles because they are made out of rubber bands. Since Syms looks the same on both sides, I used the geometric property of symmetry. I chose cylinders and circles because I wanted to make Syms rounded, and segmented with a perfect shape of a stinger, eyes, legs, and antennas.

By Syvanna (no story)