In Three Dimensions

12/18/2006 by nathaniel

So maybe this isn’t the best topic for this moment– re-inaugurating the ‘blog so to speak– but I had this dream the other night about which I keep thinking: it’s simple, and it’s also perhaps indicative of my computer-addled brain, but I dreamt I was using this computer-drawing program that was some weird intuitive merger of Photoshop and some 3-D thing like Maya. The idea was that I could draw anything, and when I held the ctrl button (to be honest, I can’t remember if it was a Mac or PC), it immediately rendered the drawing in a simple 3-D. But the best part is, whenever I did that, it would turn my pen tool into a knife tool so I could carve off bits, and they would fall off with virtual gravity. Perfect for drawing a ruined castle, which– you can probably guess– was exactly what I was drawing.

As a side note, doesn’t Sigur Ros sound like something like the slow, majestic, time-lapse march of gold– and emerald-colored lichens?

One comment on ‘In Three Dimensions’

pw — 22 January 2007 20:29: a possible subsequent iteration would be when you could take that knife and throw it at said object, whittling it while honing your knife-throwing technique, which is no doubt already superb. once again, shifting this into a game, you could raise a siege against the castle buying having a legion of knife throwers, or make it more mundane and predictable by changing them into catapults; the key is that it would possible to see precisely vectored wall fragments falling away in realtime. then, if sped up dramatically, we could see lichen growing over the molding ruins of the former castle now piled rubble mount.