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Transitioning from orthographic to perspective: Sketching the complex form of a Pringle potato chip

Transitioning from orthographic to perspective: Sketching the complex form of a Pringle potato chip

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Transitioning from orthographic to perspective: Sketching the complex form of a Pringle potato chip

- This is a demo intended to show the power of orthographic to help map geometry into perspectival space. I like to say that if you can sketch an idea in orthographic, that you have enough information to move into perspective. And to demonstrate this, I'll again use something out in the world that I imagine most of us are familiar with. The Pringle potato chip. This chip is a classic compound curved surface meaning it curves simultaneously in two different directions unlike say a cylinder, which curves in only one direction following a circle. Surfaces like the Pringles, sometimes described as a saddle, but technically called a hyperbolic paraboloid can be found on roofs of large arenas and other structures. The Velopark from the 2012 London Olympics is just such an example. What's exciting, actually liberating, about this process of sketching, is that with a small amount of information, sections basically, we have enough information to make very solid guesstimates about what the form…

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