Cylinders in Perspective; Varying Points of View

7:55 PM, Thursday April 25th 2024

Is it OK to practice cylinders from all these angles https://imgur.com/a/Pr5XJI4 in the set of 150 — per the picture I included. Should I wait until the set of 100 Cylinders in boxes to try out all the angles?

Does my question make sense? In the first 150 it seems like the instruciton is to draw them so that at least part of the top or bottom is always visible.

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6:35 PM, Friday April 26th 2024

The reminders from this section of the course material goes into this in more detail, but this challenge has us rotating our forms freely and randomly, and for that reason we don't want students aligning them to the viewer's angle of sight (which as explained back in lesson 1 is how we end up with vanishing points that get pushed to infinity, resulting in sets of edges that are parallel in 3d space also being drawn as parallel on the page). So the kinds of orientations you showed here, where we've gotten very specific alignments resulting in 2 and 1 point perspective should be avoided for this challenge.

7:31 PM, Friday April 26th 2024

OK — I see how the answer was there in the text. Thanks for clarifying!

Upon reflection, I realize that there is a there is a huge range in the amount of convergence that a box can have. It can approach almost being 1Pt. and 2Pt. perspective while remaining in 3pt. (Just make sure there is convergence to all sets of lines!)

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