From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: OT: Asymptote in Context
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:03:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141229160343.638e428d@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsBrfy7J5s34VWbfOCxw+PFEi_h+PPxpxcj5EB16RaFjQQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:07:38 +0100
luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, but I fail to see what the 3D aspect of this drawing brings
> > to anything, other than to impress the gallery and look spiffy.
> >
> > I guess that we belong now to a society without any imagination,
> > requiring lots of colors, shadowing (and even animation) in order to
> > get an idea across...
> >
> > (At least make use of the third dimension to describe SOMETHING if
> > you are going to include it.)
> >
> >
> > http://www.pdf3d.com/gallery.php
> shows other examples
I guess that "impress the gallery" is a translation of an expression in
French referring to the upper, low-price, standing room only balcony in
theaters, populated by an audience that is easily impressed...
Sorry, but I insurge against the frequent, abusive misuse of 3d-like
illustrations common in PowerPoint and other MSWord documents.
Sometimes, it is useful to illustrate something in perspective; in most
cases this turns out to be very marginal - nothing more than "eye
candy" - makes life sweeter!
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-29 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-24 21:41 Context NTG
2014-12-28 7:21 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-12-28 11:04 ` Mojca Miklavec
2014-12-28 16:51 ` OT: " Alan BRASLAU
2014-12-28 17:07 ` luigi scarso
2014-12-29 15:03 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2014-12-29 15:27 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2014-12-28 18:44 ` Mojca Miklavec
2015-01-02 22:14 ` Context NTG
2015-01-20 3:39 ` Aditya Mahajan
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