Form Intersections Question
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/comments/qu6dbw/form_intersections_question/
2021-11-15 02:57
zigzagbridge
It is starting to make so much sense to me why form intersections are introduced at the end of Lesson 2. I've done nothing but think about them ever since. I think I even dream about them.
I'm stuck on this, though: When forms intersect, does the shape of the intersection follow the form that is doing the absorbing, or does it follow the form that is being absorbed? I feel like I should be able to just look and see this for myself, but for some reason, I just can't get it.
Uncomfortable
2021-11-15 18:32
A better way to think about the intersections (and this really isn't any easier to wrap one's head around, to be honest - it still is one of those things that settles in as we continue to work through the course, learning to manipulate forms in 3D space through constructional drawing exercises and such) is to think of them as existing on the surface of both forms simultaneously.
This is the approach we try using in the written material, which was updated much more recently than the video, by a matter of years. This is something I'm working to fix by overhauling all the video content, but for now this is definitely one of those areas where the approach between text/video are quite different. Either way, they're still trying to make sense of that which is inherently a difficult thing to put to words.
Another way to think about it, which is fairly similar to the "line that runs along the surface of both forms simultaneously" concept is to think of it as though you're taking two forms, passing them through one another, then welding them together. The intersection line is the path you'd follow with your welding torch, to bind them together.
zigzagbridge
2021-11-15 19:45
Thank you. I don't know why I can't get my mind around this. It feels clearer than it did when I first encountered it in Lesson 2, but it's still pretty confusing to me. The welding example helps, I think. I'll roll that one around in my brain for awhile.
Thank you times a gazillion for this course! What an awesome thing you've done! I'm more grateful than I can even begin to say.