Week 9 Blog Exercise – Dimension/Depth/Space

(original site: http://haha.nu/creative/the-best-of-hahanu-2006/ )

I chose this example because I think it relates to a graphic depiction of the illusion of space. In this 3-D animation there are a many elements found that we learned this week. For instance the linear depth is the first thing i noticed. The lines go back and up and reminds me of  looking at the bottom of a steep slide or something similar to that. Then the texture gradient, the squares are large and slightly misshapen then very rectangle then become perfect squares again. We know in actuality the squares closest to us are perfect because of our knowledge of relative size. Then the shading convergence gives helps give us  proximity clues, and tells us hoe close the ball it to us and and gives us information that the top or the picture is further away from us. I would even say there is a use of Atmospheric perspective because the lines get out of focus and fuzzy as they go away from us in the picture plane.  Focusing on the clock the face uses peripheral vision causing a fish eye lens, and shading to help describe the 3-dimensionality of the sphere. The sphere itself overlaps the space of the background, giving us information that it is closer to u