Tufte Reading

While reading the Tufte article, the first paragraph immediately grabbed my attention. It said that even though we live in a three dimensional world, everything that is drawn on paper is two dimensional. Even though this seems quite evident, I have never thought about it this way. When looking at a book with pictures of a city, we can imagine it in real life, but I have never thought that the illustration of a city was any different than a city itself. However, even if they have the same features, they still are drastically different. The article continues to say how we can make illustrations on paper more three dimensional like, however, it is still fascinating to think of these in two very different ways, than what I would have thought of it previously. 

Making different items appear to be more three dimensional like on paper did not just occur out of the blue one day. There have been many techniques that have been attempted over a great amount of years. Some of these techniques did not work as well as others. However, without trial and error, we would not be so advanced in the work we have today that looks more three dimensional than ever. Many artists took both the ideas of others who may not have worked out the best and the ideas who did work out to piece together what they have now. After so many years, we still can say that three dimensional drawing is at its peak, yet will over more time become even better and more detailed. 

Sunspots were something discovered by Galileo and deeply studied in regards to three dimension. With over three hundred eighty years of analyzing these sun spots, it is the one thing that’s designs have not changed by others. The same exact design strategies are used by many artists just as they were back in history. I think this is interesting because so many images are viewed again and again, and changed so many times until it is perfect. Even when it is perfect to most, there still may be someone who is not as satisfied and would change it again. However, the sunspot is the one that has not been changed at all. These strategies have gone widespread and used independently from the sunspots altogether.