Sony Bravia Zoetrope (not the final version) Crystal Zoetrope. Deeper" Peter Hudson's 2004 zoetrope. Jamesaallen.com/wordpress/wp- Zachary Coffin Sculpture :::: Colossus. One fascinating thing about building a large scale work in CAD space is the incidental creation of all kinds of interesting visual artifacts. A three dimensional object must be both defined mathematically in a way that can be processed by a machine as well as represented on a screen in a way that is both understood and manipulated by a human eye/brain. The designers of CAD software have created all kinds of methods to help in this process. These include varying line-weight to help the eye understand hierarchy (something also considered critical in better art-schools) as well as the creation of all kinds of reference lines/planes and other visual aids to help make sense of the object being created.
If one is building objects that are more than simple shapes and other than right angles, things get very complicated quickly. I am currently working on a large wind activated commission that among other things will have “sails” made up of hundreds of stainless steel bird-like forms. Wpba.mediaplayer (video/x-ms-asf Object) Videos « George Sherwood.