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Seeing and sketching

Seeing and sketching

From the course: Sketching for Product Design and AEC

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Seeing and sketching

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- So in the last video we got down to the business of compressing the rules of perspective into more manageable general principles. We're going to continue building on what we just did. As I previously mentioned, the box we're currently in is a really useful tool for understanding space. But what I didn't say is that the box is actually transparent. It's a glass box. The reason is that in order for us to go inside our geometry and continue building and constructing form, we can't let the box get in our way. We need to see through the walls. Now this is not just some convenient analogy, but in fact a cognitive reality. Every time we see objects that are not in full view, let's say the box of cereal on the kitchen table is partly obscured by your cereal bowl, our brains can still make sense of the scene. We more or less complete the missing geometry by seeing through the objects to imagine their hidden geometry. Developers of computer aided design software understand this human need to…

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