I drew this while dead stoned on Cocodamol,
and trying to remember the rules of perspective...

( pxyzyzygy, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:24, archived)

woo for graphic design!
I used to do that in high school, but fucked up the exam, cos all I had was a packet of wax crayons. I wish I was making this up...
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:25, archived)

Failure by Crayola!
Was your tutor Laura Llewellyn Ladybum?
(dawn_syndrome dawn_syndrome, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:31, archived)

He's down!
Kick him, kick him! :)
( paw, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:33, archived)

Take that!
You foul festering dullard!
(dawn_syndrome dawn_syndrome, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:34, archived)

it sucked! I was really good at graphics too!
they told me all equipment would be provided for the exam, then when I got there, they had seriously underestimated the amount of equipment they had, and I ended up with just a packet of wax crayons. I shit ye not.

up until that point, I had got damn near 100% on every exam in graphics I ever did...
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:36, archived)

You should have burned down the school!
You know it makes sense.
(dawn_syndrome dawn_syndrome, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:37, archived)

funnily enough
that was the first thing I thought of when I got my results. Damn it was tempting. It also just happened to be the week all the fire extinguishers had been taken to be refilled cos people kept emptying them in the corridors....
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:39, archived)

Je ne regrette rien!
Toasty warm.
(dawn_syndrome dawn_syndrome, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:40, archived)

someone burned down my school shortly after i left
they also closed the maternity ward i was born in shortly after i was born

good, eh?
( spacefish is imaginary oh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:44, archived)

why is your first birthday the year AFTER you were born?
surely your first true birth day was the day that you were born

i hereby declare myself 24!
( spacefish is imaginary oh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:45, archived)

i've just remembered that's not what it means at all
and that i should be doing some work. idiocy over!
( spacefish is imaginary oh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:48, archived)

rok n roll!

( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:46, archived)

they have rules?
surely "things look small if they're far away" is all you need to know?
( new_matt, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:25, archived)

nah, you have to make two points level with each other
and then everything has to converge to those points.
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:26, archived)

Interior perspective can be done with just one point...

( pxyzyzygy, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:28, archived)

yeah, but the convergence rule applies.
in that case ^^^ its two points.
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:30, archived)

Prolly. I do it all with computers these days
and big expensive fuck off CAD systems...
( pxyzyzygy, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:34, archived)

That was the kind of work I was hoping to get into
but the wax crayon incident, coupled with the fact that my college didnt do a graphics course kind of chose my career path for me...
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:37, archived)

I've heard that
you can actually do GCSEs in all sorts of cool topics now like Music Technology and stuff.

Cunts. All we had was Religious Brainwashing Education, Maths and Cookery. And other things. Is it no wonder that I'm a disillusioned big headed wankstain now?

No.
( brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:39, archived)

yeah
the year after I left St Gabriels, they built a fucking recording studio. utter utter bastards...
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:42, archived)

you should* burn it down out of spite





*n't
( brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:47, archived)

Looks like
three points to me
(F1Monkey, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:40, archived)

no, its only two
the third point is where the two converge. Its not actually a point.
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:42, archived)

OK
www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca/art/grade10/drawing/perspective4.html
(F1Monkey, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:52, archived)

yeeeeeeeeees
but its not actually a point! its just the convergence of the other two points! otherwise youd have to add a point for every set of lines you drew that converged.
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:55, archived)

I'm
confused

:(

sorry
(F1Monkey, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:57, archived)

the example you showed
doesnt use three points. You start by drawing two points on the page, then all the lines must come from those points. the third "point" in that example is just the convergence of the the lines. Its not actually a point because none of the lines come from there. Its kinda hard to describe.
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 14:03, archived)

Surely the
vertical lines in that example come from the third 'point'?

Sorry, I'm sure I don't know nearly as much about this as you, that's why I can't really argue - I just remember being told about this at school, and I want to know if I've been wrong all these years : )
(F1Monkey, Mon 12 May 2003, 14:05, archived)

I remember in Art we got asked to draw a scene from a film
and I did a single point perspective thing. It was from Independance Day. Like a cockpit view of the huge motherfunking ship thing that hovers over the cities, with missiles hitting it n stuff, but my art teacher said it wasnt arty enough, and made me colour all the buildings in stupid colours like pink and purple to make it look more abstract...
( PMGT Bosh, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:33, archived)

hahaha
Art teachers are gay. FACT.
( brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:37, archived)

sounds familiar...
I handed in a 3D animation[1] as an end of year project and was promptly failed because 'the computer did all the work'...

Themla Mort of Milnerton High, thou art a CNUT!

[1] using PovRay and flat text files, no less!
( packetslut, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:49, archived)

we did that in primary school
we also learnt about Pythagoras theorem, Archimidean screws, and how to copy Rembrants and Cannalettos. However, we found that these things were useless when we got to Secondary School where use of calculators, biros, and "how not to get the shit kicked out of you by bullies" were actually much more important.

FACT.
( brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:37, archived)

unless they are really big, surely?

( Dr Nick Riviera, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:26, archived)

or infinitely small
the you can't see 'em and it don't matter anyway
( thebear has now achieved 50 Solar Orbits, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:32, archived)

a good point too.

( Dr Nick Riviera, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:34, archived)

so, a wiseguy eh?
ok, "smaller" ;)
( new_matt, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:34, archived)

I would like to think Im wise, for sure.

( Dr Nick Riviera, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:36, archived)

see
Father Ted for clarification on the Rules of Perspective
( dutchbird, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:39, archived)

Oooh
looks like the pitstop building from Scalextric...
( JustHere, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:26, archived)

looks like my new house
from Ultima Online!
( Lord_Munkee bad times, Mon 12 May 2003, 13:33, archived)