MMEDIA 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Counterirritant, 2D Computer Graphics, Understanding Media

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Multimedia
• Course: MMEDIA 1A03
• Professor: Liss Platt

Document Summary

First article: understanding media: the extensions of man the gadget lover . By marshall mcluhan: narcissus is directly concerned with a fact of human experience comes from the. Form: visible shape or configuration of something; anything that makes up composition; carries meaning; shapes, lines, words, pictures, etc. Space: the ground or field of composition; considered neutral until broken by form/composition. A 2d space when acted upon with form becomes an apparent 3d space. Space is considered negative and space is considered as the ground in which form becomes a figure. Shape: first as flat, external contour determine one shape or other, determine what. Two different kinds of shape/form: organic: shapes that are irregular, complex, highly differentiated (i. e. the canadian. Flag: geometric: contour is regularized; external dimensions are mathematically similar, calculable (i. e. a square, texture and pattern are two basic categories of surface activity.