/3/ - 3DCG

I was once like most of you. I believed in 3D like most of you do. More to the point, I wanted to believe in 3D, and for a while I had convinced myself there was such a thing. It's pretty simple x,y, and z right? If only it were that simple, or that complex if you prefer. As a child growing up with black and white television. I knew that a single beam was capable of painting a picture on the screen of a CRT. Modulated to produce shades of grey, pixel by pixel, line by line, forming a picture on the screen. It was obvious at the time that it was no more than a photograph, a so-called 2D dimensional representation, consisting of x, and y.
By that time we were all familiar with the illusion of motion pictures. Flip-book animation had been around for centuries, films were quite common, but aside from a few less fortunate impressionable minds on the planet, there was no doubt about it being x,y,t.

Through drawing we attempt to give the illusion of form by shading. In pic related example, many brainwashed 3D cult members might refer to this as a cube. The artist's sorcery gives that impression, but it is not. His arrangement of 3 diamonds, and use of shading deceives the weak minded. Look closely at what this sorcerer has done. His shading of the diamonds intentionally separates them into distinct illusion planes, each having 2 dimensions x, and y.
No smoke and mirrors, no slight of hand, it's merely faulty wiring in your brain that confuses you to believe there is substance. These 3 diamonds are not squares, simple geometry will prove this, yet you've convinced yourself otherwise, and have chosen to believe in 3D which does not exist, nor was that the artist's intent. The artist would have you believe that each of those diamonds was a 2 dimensional square. Knowing this could improve your ability as an artist, but has this lesson changed your belief system? Are you starting to realize that you have never actually seen a cube in reality, let alone art?