CompuServe Messages

Hey Dennis…. Excuse me for jumoing in here but a comment on your message to Terry. About teaching 3D, I most situations I would concurr with your opinion about getting people up to speed in 2d first & then go to 3d latter. Except when I went to teach 3d to a group of Architectural Students. This was a using computers for building DESIGN course. Well the first few times I did that course it was 2d first & then 3d later… Then I observed my Mentor at the University do the course with 1st semester design students. Guess what he had them doing 3d on the first day did it work. yes it did… I can't wait to try it out myself…. How did this gentleman convince me so easily (besides the fact that I'm a pushover <g>.).. He impressed upon me that 3d is the natural way of the world… sounds reasonable…. In fact as a child you create with 3d blocks… you tend to draw using simple 3d techniques… Until the day you sit in a drafting class & learn technical drafting. Orthographic projections. His point was 2d is a learned or taught method, whereas 3d is more natural & intuitive. Roger Cusson