Monday, October 13, 2008

<< Representational Techniques >>

After finishing our series of lectures and tutorials on design process and introduction to computer graphics, we embarked onto representational techniques.

For this, we learnt about pictograms, and the study of signs, how to use diagrams for visual communication. Simplicity at its best, i think is what i got away from the lecture. It is amazing how simple shapes and lines etc could be used to represent a message or object or even direct a person's actions.

At the end of the lecture, we were also tasked with our classroom assigment 2, as shown below:
I have chose to use a water dispenser found in NUS and drew out the 5 levels of abstraction.

Original Object: Water Dispenser
Abstract (1): The whole outline of the dispenser plus details of the filter etc.

Abstract (2): Details removed left with general outline of the dispenser.

Abstract (3): Outline is removed, focus is brought to just the two taps with filter tray.

Abstract (4): Only water tap is shown, droplet is added for the retention of its function.

Abstract (5): Just the water droplet, maximum level of abstraction.

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