The Art of 3 Dimensional Design: How to Create Space Figures - Brossura

Wolchonok, Louis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486222012 ISBN 13: 9780486222011

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1969

Riassunto

Prepared by a nationally known teacher of art and design, this guide to the creation of space figures in design points out the countless possibilities inherent in the basic geometric surfaces and solids. It demonstrates how they can be transformed into three-dimensional design motifs, and it encourages the reader's imagination to envision in the round the space figures he draws and sketches as rough notations. It also shows how to reduce natural and man-made forms to their geometric equivalents and, by new combinations, create original three-dimensional products.
Mr. Wolchonok approaches his subject through an investigation of the properties of the various geometric surfaces—plane, prismatic, cylindric, pyramidal, conical, spherical, ribbon and sheet surfaces and surfaces of revolution—and demonstrates ably how each of these can be modified, adapted, and transformed into many new forms. He shows how designs can be constructed from combinations of surfaces—for example, how intersections between cylinders, prisms and pyramids can be used in designing such objects as candelabras, receptacles, or table legs. He discusses repetition of motif and the rhythmic flow of surfaces; he describes and illustrates more than two hundred variations of human and animal forms that can be constructed in stone, clay, silver, brass, copper, or wood with combinations of three-dimensional geometric forms.
This book will be a source of constant reference for interior designers, sculptors, ceramists, silversmiths, product designers, architects, display craftsmen, furniture designers, and all those whose hobbies or professions make use of three-dimensional design.

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Preface 1 INTRODUCTION 2 FUNDAMENTAL DEFINITIONS 3 THE PLANE SURFACE 4 BASIC SURFACES PLATE A Surfaces composed of planes and single rule developable surfaces PLATE B Non-developable surfaces 5 THE PRISM AND PRISMATIC SURFACES PLATE A Surfaces whose faces are varied figures of three or more sides PLATE B Sheet and wire-combing forms PLATE C The dynamic diagonal in the skeletal wire prism PLATE D The prismatic module-combinations varying in size and shape PLATE E Plane surface angular variants from the square prism (title design) PLATE F Further variants including cylindric surfaces (tile design) PLATE G Variations in over-all shape through rearrangement of prismatic parts 6 CYLINDRIC SURFACES PLATE A Combining surfaces in which the cylindric surface is featured 7 THE PYRAMID AND PYRAMIDAL SURFACES PLATE A Open pyramidal surfaces using line elements and partial surfaces PLATE B Combinations of planes and pyramids-redistribution of segments to form new space conbinations PLATE C Structural pyramids PLATE D Pyramidal combinations and variants as applied to ceramics 8 CONES AND CONICAL SURFACES PLATE A Space designs using conical surfaces in combination with connecting lines and planes PLATE B Conical surface variants showing practical applications 9 THE SPHERICAL SURFACE PLATE A Free-form variants PLATE B The spherical surface in combination with other surfaces 10 SURFACES OF REVOLUTION PLATE A Meridian sections of surfaces of revolution 11 THE RIBBON SURFACE 12 STEPPING OUT OF THE PLANE PLATE A Plane surfaces with varying contours bent into space transformations PLATE B Extension of planes into space figures through combination with other planes and cylindric surfaces PLATE C Projection of lines and surfaces into space to unite with plane (jewelry design) 13 THE SHEET SURFACE PLATE A Sheet surfaces showing linear elements and various connecting lines PLATE B Surfaces determined by curved lines PLATE C Connecting lines and surfaces suggested by the curved lines 14 COMBINATIONS OF SURFACES AND SOLIDS "PLATE A Intersections between cylinders, prisms, and pyramids" PLATE B Various treatments of the candelabra PLATE C Architectural forms showing combinations of surfaces PLATE D Ceramic receptacles PLATE E Variations in the treatment of table legs 15 SPACE CURVES 16 DESIGN OF TABLE TOP PLATE A The Square top and variants 17 ANGULAR TRANSFORMATION OF TREE FORM PLATE A Space effect heightened by sharp changes in the direction of various parts 18 THE PLAN AND ITS SPACE EQUIVALENTS PLATE A Space interpretation in which two of the curved surfaces are non-developable "PLATE B Plane, cylindric, and conic surface variants of four plans" PLATE C A front elevation and its space interpretations 19 REPETITION OF MOTIF PLATE A Modified open triangular prism repeated in varying combinations PLATE B Repetition of two-part motif derived from triangular prism 20 RHYTHMIC FLOW OF SURFACES PLATE A Continuous flow of line PLATE B Changes in rhythm produced by changes in direction and in the number of elements PLATE C Repeated changes in the character of surfaces 21 ANIMAL FORM PLATE A Cubic interpretation of natural figures PLATE B Variants derived from the squirrel PLATE C Serpentine and elliposoidal simplifications PLATE D Six elephants PLATE E Birds especially suited for ceramic and jewelry design PLATE F Free interpretation of birds 22 THE HUMAN FIGURE PLATE A The skeletal wire figure PLATE B Variants based on Figure 2 of Plate A PLATE C Variants based on Figure 1 of Plate A PLATE D Variations on a theme PLATE E Angular interpretations of the human head PLATE F Sheet figure compositions "PLATE G Motion, tension, flow of line" "PLATE H Repose, opposition, continuity" PLATE I Open-figure compositions PLATE J Dancing figures PLATE K Block and pyramidal derivatives PLATE L Pyramidal variants PLATE M Wire-line figures allowing free interpretation of surfaces PLATE N Sheet and wire compositions PLATE O Musical figures PLATE P Variants showing the interplay of concave and convex figures

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Book by Wolchonok Louis

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0486222012
• ISBN 13: 9780486222011
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 169