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Creating depth

Because one of my passions is art, I constantly relate the things I learn in this class to drawing concepts. At first I was surprised that there was so many similarities and overlaps but the more I...

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A Euclidian vs non-Euclidian World

While the world around us is constructed with parallel lines running parallel, our eyes never see it that way. What we see on our retina and what is actually there before us are extremely different....

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Architectural Visualization

Selling architecture can be hard.  An idea has to travel from your creative ideas, to sketches, to computer aided drafting, to structural engineers, to HVAC engineers, to electrical engineers.  The...

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What’s your favorite color?

What’s your favorite color? As a typical elementary school question to determine whether you’re truly compatible with your best friend or not, it always amused me how so many people had different...

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Tuning Timpani

Starting in fourth grade and ending in tenth grade, I spent several days a week at our school’s concert band practice. I was a percussion player and that meant learning new and interesting instruments...

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Attention to Detail

What is attention? Seems like a simply question doesn’t it? However, no one can seem to give us a definitive answer. It is an arbitrary concept that our brain has seemed to master in order to take in...

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Fishing Boats by the Shore in a Calm

“Fishing Boats by the Shore in a Calm” (ca. 1660–65) Oil on canvas by Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707) This is one of my favorite paintings from Legion of Honor, for I always have this...

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Hearing Loss and Rock Concerts

When i was a Junior in high school, i spent a good majority of the winter and spring touring the east coast with a group of 20 other kids my age, playing classic rock concerts everywhere we went. When...

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Color Perception

A topic that I find really interesting is the idea of color. I have always just assumed that every physical object in this world obtains the colors we see. I have never really thought about the fact...

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Flat Canvas

The visual system is a “funny” thing sometimes, which projects a variety of unique functions. These can be related to many things such as simply viewing the words on a large screen or understanding the...

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