250 Cylinder Challenge
8:02 PM, Saturday January 14th 2023
Dear Drawabox staff,
This is my submission for the 250 Cylinders Challenge. I have done my best to give this challenge as much time as it requires to be executed to the best of my current ability. I am especially satisfied with how the 150 standalone cylinders turned out: I can draw them with much joy because of the control I have over their perspectives.
Observation
I included measured degrees on cylinders whose vanishing on the z-axis appear to be parallel (but in reality aren’t). I observed the following:
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The further the object towards the viewer, the more parallel the vanishing lines will be. I remember a popular car chase YouTube video, which perplexed me a little, because the perspective looked so isometric, so parallel. The reason is that the footage was zoomed in a lot from a camera operator on a helicopter (I cannot remember the source, but many popular car-chase scenes filmed from above have this effect). Other good references for this phenomenon of this straight perspective are gigapixel images from bigpixel.cn.
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This 3D model of a transparent cylinder shows an interactive demonstration of the parallelization of the vanishing lines the further the cylinder will be placed from the viewer (dgscott922, Sketchfab 2021).
The reason for giving these aforementioned observations is that I think that far cylinders to the viewer need to follow visually looking parallel vanishing lines for them to be correctly identified as being far away—as much as close objects need their vanishing lines to be more angled for them to be correctly identified as being close by. Therefore, I believe for instance that cylinders 1, 6, and 8 of set 2 are to be expected to be close to parallel if they are considered to be far-away cylinders. If I had slowed the progression of foreshortening (the two pages for the halted second revision are what it could lead to), the page could work as a whole piece of 19 cylinders wherein I assume the seemingly parallel vanishing lines for the far-away cylinders would be a necessity for it to work as such.
Kind regards,
Sincerely,
Manolito Mystique