"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
I learned perspective drawing in college, in my drafting course; I was a "BC" student, "BC" meaning "before computers", so no computer assisted drawing software.
(The BC is not strictly true, but IBM punch cards don't lend themselves to CAD at all.)
I never was very good at it, but I mastered the basics. I still have my drafting kit, which looks like this:
Complete with templates, pencils, triangles, compass, scales, etc. I once brought it to a group project session, and one youngsters commented that the contents looked a lot like the toys his smaller siblings played with.
Same here Jeff. I did a few years of Technical Drawing in the last few years of highschool. I was terrible at it and the rest of the class had been doing it for the prior 3 years. One thing I remember though was the teacher telling me the light was formed by the dark. Very philosophic fpr a 16 year old.
I know I had some very elementary exposure to draftsmanship somewhere in my schooling, but can't remember what the class was. Shop, maybe? I was terrible at shop, incidentally. I recall one time, I was supposed to cut the first letter of my first name out of a piece of wood. After an excruciating hour of fouling up, I finally gave the shop teacher a piece of wood that looked like an 'l', and told him that I actually went by my middle name, Larry (my middle name's not really Larry). He asked why I used a lower case, and I believe I simply mumbled something unintelligible and then the bell rang and I withdrew in not particularly good order.
We can be grateful that the illusionist hasn't taken an interest in forged currency. Even after I'd watched the entire process, the illusion was real to me.
It's all a matter of perspective ... ...
ReplyDeleteI learned perspective drawing in college, in my drafting course; I was a "BC" student, "BC" meaning "before computers", so no computer assisted drawing software.
(The BC is not strictly true, but IBM punch cards don't lend themselves to CAD at all.)
I never was very good at it, but I mastered the basics. I still have my drafting kit, which looks like this:
https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HvXklclHL.jpg
Complete with templates, pencils, triangles, compass, scales, etc. I once brought it to a group project session, and one youngsters commented that the contents looked a lot like the toys his smaller siblings played with.
Same here Jeff. I did a few years of Technical Drawing in the last few years of highschool. I was terrible at it and the rest of the class had been doing it for the prior 3 years. One thing I remember though was the teacher telling me the light was formed by the dark. Very philosophic fpr a 16 year old.
ReplyDeleteI know I had some very elementary exposure to draftsmanship somewhere in my schooling, but can't remember what the class was. Shop, maybe? I was terrible at shop, incidentally. I recall one time, I was supposed to cut the first letter of my first name out of a piece of wood. After an excruciating hour of fouling up, I finally gave the shop teacher a piece of wood that looked like an 'l', and told him that I actually went by my middle name, Larry (my middle name's not really Larry). He asked why I used a lower case, and I believe I simply mumbled something unintelligible and then the bell rang and I withdrew in not particularly good order.
DeleteWe can be grateful that the illusionist hasn't taken an interest in forged currency. Even after I'd watched the entire process, the illusion was real to me.
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