Models without drawings are like movies without sound, silent film.
Not really something aspirational, nor inspiring.
Regressive, actually.
But what are drawings?
They’re expressions of visual close study (VCS) or to put it another way, they’re an articulation of attentive focus.
Sure, they’re “views”, of models mental and digital.
But the meaning of view decayed, weakened under force of 20 years of corporate software marketing rhetoric — in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry — that mystified digital modeling.
“View” is degraded to the passive sense only. The verb, by now, is forgotten while the lonely noun suffers increasingly as if from dementia:
the sense of the active engagement of the one viewing, was at first obfuscated and then progressively lost.
There’s hardly any trace of it left today.
The active meaning needs rehabilitation.
That is, we need it rehabilitated.
Drawing, after all, is about drawing one’s attention. What’s drawn, by any drawing?
Your attention!
Your attention is drawn.
Every time.
Every drawing.
It has to do with narrowing focus, choosing what should and should not be seen, making clear essential clarifications, supplying required affirmation, and generally running the engine of thought itself.
More on this here https://tangerinefocus.com/why-do-we-need-better-vcs-equipment-the-pragmatic-answer/
Here’s a fragment of some of the concepts we’re working on in our open source project for visual close study (VCS) equipment (TGN rigs) in models of all kinds.
We do this with respect for the largely neglected, for 20 years, requirement for active, assertive, clarifying visual engagement with models of all kinds, engagement necessary for restarting and running the engine of thought itself, without which the engine stalls and stops.
Expression of visual close study (VCS) or attentive focus is neither to be abandoned, nor relegated to its centuries-old form of expression and externalized from the digital model, only.
No.
VCS will EVOLVE.
In service to:
HI
Human Intelligence
Not artificial intelligence.
Not pseudo-intelligence.
Actual thought.
Where serious people actually think.
And think things all the way through.
Back to the HI REVOLUTION.
We’re on track to demonstrate working code late this summer, approximately.
Here’s a technical specification of our open source VCS development project:
Models (mental or digital) without drawings are like movies without sound, silent film.
Not really something aspirational, nor inspiring.
Regressive, actually.
But just like 100 years ago, many promote that.
“In September 1926, Jack L. Warner, head of Warner Bros., was quoted to the effect that talking pictures would never be viable: “They fail to take into account the international language of the silent pictures, and the unconscious share of each onlooker in creating the play, the action, the plot, and the imagined dialogue for himself.”[146]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_film#Commerce
So, sure and consistently, just as audiences would prefer creating the play, the action, the plot, and the imagined dialog for themselves, so then leaving it as such well and truly accords, too, with the preference of those creating, directing and producing films!
Just leave the interpretation more fully poetic, or something, in the enforced absence of a primary form of communication: speech.
Yeah, again, looking at this a hundred years later just induces formation of a category many of us didn’t know existed:
OPEN VCS, a lens for looking at models 