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Explainer: Metal

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/

January 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Rebirth: What changed in the Renaissance and when?

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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.

March 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Visual illusions in paintings: Foreshortening

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Not an illusion as such, it has been used to great effect by a wide range of painters from Mantegna to Munch.

June 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Is perspective learned or natural?

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If Brunelleschi had introduced Cubism instead of perspective projection, would that have altered human visual perception?

January 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Illusions of the real

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Paintings on walls and ceilings created a virtual reality long before the term was coined. Even now, they can be breathtaking in effect.

January 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Q&A: 3D video support

What support is there for my 3D video camera?

October 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Landscape Visions: 9 Constructing space

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Seurat painted five series of paintings carefully constructed to help form 3D space.

August 11, 2015 Painting

Human Interface Perspective

There have been experimental human interfaces that have conjured up greater depth, and presented projected objects instead of flat layers.

June 2, 2015 Macs, Painting, Technology

A D Too Far

Current 3D movies are a throwback to the old cinema of spectacle, first mastered by the Lumière brothers and travelling showmen.

May 15, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Making space: 6 Summary

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This final article summarises the importance of different cues to depth in painting.

April 26, 2015 Painting

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