Articulation
Exploring forms that morph and change over time requires a designer to think not only in 3D but also in 4D (time). Designers have been using visualization techniques to demonstrate how a product articulates—opens, closes, and transforms—from the very beginnings of the profession, and have devised conventions to show change using directional arrows and ghosted images. Niels Diffrient and Alvin Tilley mapped out the human body and its range of articulations while interacting with controls of all sorts, resulting in detailed measured anthropometric drawings. Their work became the measure of man and woman, the first ergonomic reference ...
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