Metal provides low-level access to 3D graphics, rendering and compute features in GPUs. With the deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL, it’s vital, especially for M1 Macs/
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Considers what exactly changed in painting in the Renaissance, and when we can establish as those dates, compared with literature, for example.
Not an illusion as such, it has been used to great effect by a wide range of painters from Mantegna to Munch.
If Brunelleschi had introduced Cubism instead of perspective projection, would that have altered human visual perception?
Paintings on walls and ceilings created a virtual reality long before the term was coined. Even now, they can be breathtaking in effect.
What support is there for my 3D video camera?
Seurat painted five series of paintings carefully constructed to help form 3D space.
There have been experimental human interfaces that have conjured up greater depth, and presented projected objects instead of flat layers.
Current 3D movies are a throwback to the old cinema of spectacle, first mastered by the Lumière brothers and travelling showmen.
This final article summarises the importance of different cues to depth in painting.
The Eclectic Light Company 