Question

Four students were given a task to design a stencil for the word ’pedagogy’ for spray painting. Shown in the options are designs of each student that are to be cut into stencils for painting. Identify the design that will NOT work as a stencil to paint the given word?

• A.

  

• B.

  

• C.

  

• D.

  

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

The task involves identifying a design that will not work as a stencil for spray painting the word 'pedagogy'. When designing stencils, areas within enclosed shapes like 'p', 'a', 'o', 'g', and 'd' must remain attached to the rest of the stencil, otherwise, these central parts (called 'counters') would fall out. Therefore, a stencil is successful if it includes bridges or connectors to retain these counters.

When evaluating the given designs:

• Fig 1: Includes bridges, preserving counters adequately.
• Fig 2: Also includes necessary bridges.
• Fig 3: Lacks bridges, making counters fall out, thus not preserving inner shapes.
• Fig 4: Uses bridges effectively to keep parts in place.

Therefore, the design in Fig 3 will NOT function as a stencil for spray painting the word 'pedagogy' since it does not adequately use bridges to retain the counters of the letters correctly, resulting in missing inner parts when painted.