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- Jade Singer
- Apr 21
- 2 min read
The article by Christopher Roosen, 3D Modelling Should Be For Everyone – It's a Powerful, Embodied Way of Seeing, Thinking and Sharing is written by a father who watched his son experiment and learn 3D modeling software Blender. Roosen watched his sons' progress over the past few months, across hundreds of hours of tutorials, modelling experiments, and animations. Roosen formed an interesting proposal; that 3D modelling, for engineers and visual artists on high-budget movies, should be available and encouraged for everyone. Roosen thinks 3D modelling offers an embodied and powerful way of seeing, thinking, and sharing our ideas about the material world around us. He then talks about how his son found the tools to think about objects and how he would look at household objects in a different way. Then Roosen talks about a short explanation of 3D modelling. How with paper and pencil in 2D space by drawing a cup as a rectangular box with a handle, is very flat. He then goes on to say that none of these sketched experiments are 3D models, at least not in the sense of a computer-rendered 3D model of a cup. Instead, if we want to achieve a full, real-time 3D view of the cup, we need a 3D modelling tool, which visually represents the model, the cup, in a virtual, fully 3D space that lets us view an object at any angle, in real-time. Roosen then talks about the impact of “one of the fundamental skills linked to working with 3D shapes is what psychology describes as ‘Spatial Thinking and Visualisation’ (STV). Which, in its most basic sense, is the ‘ability to mentally manipulate objects and figures’ (’spatial’ in this context, just means ‘in space’)”. Overall found the article very interesting and how the father thinks about his son's interest in 3D modeling software program and how it allows the father to think deeper about STV as a psychology.
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