Design for Media I: Patterns

I don't know how to feel about this assignment.  It was fun to group with my partners and pose for the pictures.  It was also cool in concept that we are actively creating optical trickery but it just felt like a bunch of busy work.  

"Hey your vision gets shakey with some parallel black and white lines!"

"Yeah I get it."

"Hey this is how you make patterns in Illustrator."

"Cool.  Put it up on mommy's fridge."

I am grateful for the latter bit of knowledge; I simply didn't know that I could create patterns simply by dragging the 'base square' into the swatches window.  But to make an entire project out of that?  Come on man.....