9:28 PM, Thursday June 1st 2023
The vps are different for each box
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8:20 AM, Thursday January 25th 2024
Hello! So I have a couple questions for the 250 box challenge. https://imgur.com/a/wR0ixN9
I've been struggling with the back Y coming together properly fairly consistently. Sometimes I can point to obvious mistakes in the other lines that make up my box, but in number 68 for ex., I'm having a bit more trouble as it seems like most of the lines here are converging and lining up with each other nicely. That being said, the line for the dark green mark (on the right side) that should line up with the Y is completely off and converges way too fast and this is without placing it to where the corner of the other two inner lines meet. Is there something obvious I'm missing with the box's construction that's causing this axis to have one line that's wildly inconsistent with the other two?
For the back lines should I just draw them forming a neat Y even if one line is obviously going to be converging or diverging sooner than it should or just connect two and have the other meet one of the other lines naturally?
Thank you!
2:53 PM, Friday January 26th 2024
I believe your question is largely addressed by the third point in this reminders section, where it stresses that you should not be concerned with the back corner at all. How it turns out is entirely subject to how your lines converge consistently, or inconsistently, with the other members of their set.
Focusing on the back corner will only serve to distract you from those convergences and may make the issue worse rather than better.
Keep in mind that being exercises, the end result isn't as important as ensuring that our focus is directed to the areas significant to the exercise itself, and that the overall process is followed as prescribed - something that can easily be derailed when we start fixating on elements of the exercise that aren't a major part of the instructions.
7:14 PM, Sunday January 28th 2024
Thank you for redirecting me to that section! The only remaining question I have related to the back corner is if I should truly be making it a single point and potentially sacrificing one of my internal lines. In cases where there's no way that all three internal lines will realistically meet up together and form a back corner, would it be preferred to just have two lines meet and the third attached to one of those lines with the best convergence goal for all 3 sets of lines individually? Or to sacrifice(making it obviously converge too fast/diverge) that third line making up the back corner for the sake of meeting up with the corner point? I've been utilizing the first method since that seems to line up more with the goal of the exercise from my understanding. Basically prioritizing lining up all my parallel lines than worrying about the back corner? I can see an argument that doing this could be messing up the opportunity for error checking, however.
Thank you!
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