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I had no ideas on how to get started with the poster, and felt quite stuck. However, I decided to to start trying out random things the previous week just to warm-up. I first wanted to apply my fractal design, but felt like I had used that too much already since I had it in my website artwork and homepage. I wanted to take this opportunity to learn something new and different. During the warm-up phase, I tried using the grid I made for my fractal but make something other than a fractal with it. It was mostly just layered circles and squares in different colors and opacity.
I became curious about coding 3D shapes, so I looked for tutorials and found a really good website that explains it step by step. I wanted to focus on this element for my poster so that I learn something different, but it's not too overwhelming to make within a week.
I wanted to get my poster ready ahead of time, and so far, it looked good when I looked at it through pdf preview. I had exported it successfully before too when it was less complete and it looked fine. On the next day, however, when I exported the pdf to print it only showed a blank page with the title. All the visual elements were gone and I was very confused. The rest of the day I used to figure out what went wrong and I almost restarted my poster. I separated each element and exported them to see what was the problem, but it still wouldn't work. Later I found that using system dialogue to print seemed to be the issue because exporting otherwise was no problem, it just ended up being the wrong size and margins. Fixing the zoom helped with the size atleast, but some elements were still missing. I decided to continue the poster and just design on top of it while keeping in mind that some elements won't show. There was also some linear-gradient distortion happening and the blur wouldn't work. When I wanted to use a filter saturate code, suddenly it fixed the gradient issues and the blur. So some of the fixes was just luck I guess. I continued with the poster for the rest of the week, mostly just adding finishing details though.
During a feedback meeting, I had the idea to develop my fractal website a bit. I thought it would be nice to have the fractal shape grow with each click, then to retract once it reaches the maximum level. This required editing the javascript, so I decided to leave it for after my poster submission.