Shadows
Prequisites: Knowledge of concepts of pictorial analysis
Objectives: To compare the representation of shadows in pictorial techniques and in computer-aided design
Description:

A study of

  • painters' approaches to the rendering of shadows and lighting effects
  • philosophers' views of the role of light and shadow in the arts, and of the perception of time linked to lighting effects 
  • the function of shadows in computer-aided design

Questions
ARTISTS AND SHADOWS
A history of painters' use or refusal of shadows

 

  • Artists' views on shadows

A summary of contrasting views on the presence of shadows in the arts: practice and interpretation

  • The simulation of shadows and lighting effects in multimedia

see Georgian Cities cdrom, shadows in Artists' London
ARTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS ON LIGHT AND SHADOWS
A study of the controversial role of shadows in perception
  • Present-day scholarship on the history of light and shadow: major concepts

Shadows have recently been studied both in the history of art in philosophy and science: a comparison between pictorial and philosophical approaches to shadows

  • Light and shadow in 3D visualisation

3D software allows the programmer to select the source of light, or ambient-light effect, and to calculate the cast shadows accordingly in shadow mode

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