Image-making processes, diagrams, and visual culture:
design and computer graphics
| Prequisites: | Previous lessons |
| Objectives: | To study the relations between visual culture and technology |
| Description: | A study of the interaction between images and science:
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IMAGE-MAKING PROCESSES |
| The early history of the reproduction of images, for pictures and for writings; its relation to the perception of time. | |
- Image reproduction
Paintings were reproduced in engravings.
In the 18th century, there were attempts at colour engraving.
- Copying machines
In the eighteenth century, several scientists attempted to invent copying machines in order to keep duplicates of their writings
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THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF TIME IN GRAPHS FROM THE 18th CENTURY ONWARDS |
| An 'image' is not only the result of a technical process; it is also an intellectual symbolic process. The need for visual representation and the availability of print technologies interact. | |
- The visualisation of data
Giving a graphic representation of quantitative data, which is current nowadays, is a comparatively new invention (late 18th century: that of 'charts'
- The importance of data visualisation
They suggest correlations