From the course: Design Foundation 3D: Shape and Form
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Defining space
- If you're math nerd, you'd define space using the x, y, z, coordinate system to maybe define a point in space or a formula for a volume. Instead, we're going to define space by creating some sense of enclosure. Let's illustrate this point with one of my favorite things some more animation. In these examples we're seeing space defined without walls or surfaces, instead, these points and lines clearly communicate their surfaces, forms or spaces you're inside of. Another way we can define space is by using a term for the exact opposite, what I call leakage. This is where space is completely undefined like in this example with a very lonely man, on a boat in the fog, or me in outer space. Here, the feeling can get quite uncomfortable sine there's no definition or reference point, you're completely in an alien environment. For an actual example, let's check out this guy in the woods. There are trees even though they're spaced far apart, helping define an edge, almost like a corridor, or…
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