Monday, February 1, 2010

More Common 3-D Terms






ARTICULATED:
Attached with a flexible or movable joint, as in the digits of a finger.







AXIS/AXES: A line, real or imagined, around which the material that composes an object appears to be organized.







CONCAVE: A negative area in a plane or surface, a scooped out or indented form or area.






CONVEX:
A protrusion or outwardly pushing form like a nipple or breast.








CRAFTSMANSHIP: Aptitude, skill, or quality workmanship in use of tools and materials









MALLEABILITY: The capability of being molded, taking shape or being made to receive desired form.








MINIMAL: In art, characterized by the use of simple or primary forms, structures, etc., often geometric and massive.








NARRATIVE: Art, which tells a story, usually self-explanatory, being from either recognizable daily-life scenes or from familiar folk stories.








PERFORATED: Pierced with a hole or holes (like Swiss cheese).









PLATONIC SOLIDS:
Each of the five regular polyhedron (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron).








POLYHEDRON: A solid figure or object with many (usually more than six) plane faces.







SERIAL: Things in succession or installment, which vary from one another but belong together through form or content.







STYLIZATION:
The simplification of a form to emphasize its design qualities. Also, referring to remembered “representations” of an object as opposed to what is actually present.







TACTILE: perceptible to touch; that which is tangible.







TRANSLUCENT: allowing light to pass through, but not defined objects.










TRANSPARENT: a form or plane which can be seen through, such as glass.






VOID: a hollow, concavity, or unoccupied space within a solid object or mass.

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