virtualization of design and production a thesis - Bilkent University

difficulty in understanding the images; software was therefore
written that removed a line if it was hidden behind another
line. The convincing representation of solid surfaces was the
next breakthrough. And so the three-dimensional modeling
systems began to climb to the level of photorealistic
representation that is seen today” (Baker 50).
While designing a product through certain software, you can observe the
mathematically drawn lines and surfaces real time on the screen. You may
manipulate the image, rotate, pan, and zoom in and out so that you may observe
every small detail on the drawing. However, one of the most exceptional features
of some advanced CAD software is their ability to make a photo realistic
rendering of products that could be perfectly presented as inseparable from a
photographic image. This may be illustrated as taking a snapshot from a
perspective view. By adding material, texture, surface, color and environmental
lighting, you may visualize a realistic effect. (Fig. 2 and Fig.3) It is even possible
to make animations and simulations by using a similar method of editing the
surfaces.
This is the crucial point where computer simulations gain a philosophical
perspective since the boundaries between the actual and virtual, real and
simulated diminish. The designed product is represented as an image that has no
connection with reality but presented as real which has strong connotations to a
situation of the hyperreal as Baudrillard suggests in his book “Simulations and
Simulacra”.
For Baudrillard, in the world of late capitalism, reality and its connections has
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