AII: PERSPECTIVE APP
The objective of this project was to teach the theory of formal perspective through interactive application. This app allowed students to move the horizon line or eye level up and down over images that demonstrated 1-, 2-, and 3-point perspectives and to adjust the x, y, and z-axis and vanishing points to determine how to draw an object or scene using accurate perspective. Students could upload images of their arrangements to study the formal perspective or upload a drawing in progress to check the correctness of their perspective.
Titled the Perspective App, it was used as a teaching tool in FNDA110 Observational Drawing and FNDA113 Perspective. Following approval of the project proposal, I submitted the designs to Curriculum who connected with a third-party vendor in India and I design-directed the project through development.
The challenge was a communication gap between what the developers understood about formal perspective and the limitations of coding with Flash. (also a time zone issue was relevant to this project) So, we met at early and late hours and I essentially taught them what formal perspective was and how I wanted to allow students to interact with the concepts. There were several iterations that ultimately resulted in a successful learning tool. This was originally a Flash application but has since been converted to HTML5.