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3D Modeling, 2D Graphics,
and Data Visualization
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
—Ray Bradbury
6.1 SPATIAL PERCEPTION AND HOW THAT APPLIES TO
THREE-DIMENSIONALMODELING AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
You can model, build, or create whatever you can visualize if that visualization is based on careful, complete
observations of what you see in the real world. Look around your desktop. What are the qualities of the three
closest objects? What basic form do they remind you of most—a sphere, a box, or a cylinder? Where do the
highlights and shadows fall? What does the space around the object look like? T ...