- the weight of clay to make a pot
- the height of a design in centimetres or inches
- the number of pixels in a digital image
- x 2
- 200 per cent
- 2:1 scale
- x 0.5
- 50 per cent
- 1:2 scale
You need to be able to measure things in all kinds of art and design. Artists and designers may need to know measurements like:
If artists want to produce something at a different scale, they need to enlarge or reduce it. It may get distorted if they don’t know how to do it properly. When you change the size of something you can say it in different ways. These are all ways of saying you will double the size:
These are all ways of saying you will halve the size: