virtualization of design and production a thesis - Bilkent University

analyses, these applications also constitute data of the products for production.
There is advanced design software that is to perform these particular duties such
as realistic rendering and product simulations. These are not just to prepare the
piece for production but they are rather to test, simulate, animate or make a
realistic visual rendering of the design which thus becomes more and more free
from material concerns and turn into representations and images. Now, most of
the graphic design, architecture and landscape design are first simulated through
the screen, presented to the customers and then executed as real.
Efficient communication is essential for any kind of design process and it is this
sort of communication that the products come out without any misunderstanding
and defects in the production process. Technical or non-technical drawing is
therefore, “is the tool that designers use to ‘talk to themselves’ as well as the
means by which they externalize their ideas and communicate them to others”
(Baker 30) In the case of conventional design processes, the media for a product
designer or architect consists of sketching, technical drawing, perspective
drawing, rendered perspective drawing and modeling. Except for the modeling
part which is also performed manually, all the others are dependent on the basic
instrument of drawing. What the computers have done in principle is the
perfection of these drawings, perfection of calculation in vectored forms and
generation of a virtual model which is perfected according to certain
mathematical formula on the virtual world.
Complementary to the perfection of drawing, the software also has the ability to
animate and simulate the mathematically drawn models. Structural analysis,
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