RE: What is Descriptive Geometry and why is important for engineering, architecture and design?
Hello, and thank you for showing us this amazing skill derived froma human being ...but I kind of feel differently than you do. I actually feel like the technology that we create is like the next evolution of ourselves. it's not that we're cheating when we use, you know, Photoshop,or any other stylus based computer generated UI. I myself am an artist and of course I can still do what I need to do with a pencil and a piece of paper, in fact i still rely on plenty of napkin drawings. especially when speed is of the essence, but I really do feel like we should support the technology and accept it and really be grateful for it because it's not a cheating tool it's an extension of ourselves it's a natural progression we've gotten smarter and better and so has the technology that we use countless times throughout life I've been in the situation where I have it in my mind but it just can't get it to the paper some kind of combination of two or more lines that just aren't straight enough or pretty enough or I can't get perfect symmetry and then the entire project is completely forgotten because I get too frustrated to continue. you really have to stop and realize what kind of miracle that we actually have, if I have something in my mind and I want to get it out of my head all I have to do is pull out the magic window in my pocket and throw it into existence. I will concur with you about artists may be relying too much on the new technology and that a good solid foundation of artistic skill and understanding is completely needed and that goes for anything. one of the saddest things that I've seen in this country in the past 20 years is the complete devastation and degradation of the apprenticeship programs, of any skill base,even if I were to know more information about something then the man that I work for if he's been doing what I'm doing for more than my lifetime I'm going to listen to him because he knows every back door every side pocket every way to talk to whoever and how to shake hands and how to get it done. The first dream job that I ever really had it I wanted to be an architect because I'd like to build stuff out of Legos and I like to draw a really big buildings and I wanted to do all of it all the little things, tediousness and I wanted to run conduit I wanted to be responsible for what everybody else was going to put together I wanted to be able to do thought experiments like that and as I look back now I think it would have been too hard or too much or you know there's too many rules to that book for me personally I think the progression that we're taking especially the creative communities that I see adopting the new technologies and adopting the new tools and getting very skilled with them is a very natural progression that's how I feel about this
First, I must thank you for sharing your opinion with me and others :) We agree that developing technology is our next evolution and I use many programs on daily basis too. That is the reason why I wanted to talk about this. Learning things as Descriptive Geometry does not mean that we should exclude technology from our life and using technology does not mean that it can replace abstract thinking. You can actually do both things at the same time :)
You are absolutely correct. I went on a tangent there, and i apologize. I just get incited toward non-malleable ideologies toward different media... Which I know, makes me sound like one of those... You know... "Performance piece"artists. And im not, i promise. I dig art that i can discribe to someone else who hasnt seen it and not have contextual difficulties in explaining or even discribing it. (Disclaimer: im not trying to tear anyone down, im just low brow... Id pass on lunch with Pollock, but lose my mind at the idea of 20 minutes with Norman Rockwell or Guy Aitchison.) Furthermore, if im being brutally honest, im probably a little on the dullard side, and the idea of freehand Descriptive Geometry without an experienced handholder and a tutor to help me remember ANYTHING from college, i would embarrass myself.
BUT, doing both is absolutely possible, and probably eccential to continue forward with the "path to mastery" that many artists feel, myself included. Thank you for the volly of words, and reminding me to not be dumb... Abstract thinking got us out of the foodchain, therefore, i am a fan.