Iv been a designer for the last 20 years and the last time i specify to print a blueprint was about 20 years ago
Blueprint was a very low quality paper with one color blue or black lines of poor quality and resolution till the advent of plotter inkjet or laser printer.
The ink was not even waterproof - so you can imagine what happen on a construction site
Now a day iām not certain but i donāt even think that blueprint still exist on the market :eek:
So why are people still refering to blueprint for top front and side view:confused:
Top - front an side views are orthogonal projection of the 3D model on a 2D surface
it could also have been an isometric view :eek:
a top-front-side view is not a blueprint it is a 2D picture thatās it
not a blueprint.
This is a mysterie to me and the truth is out there somewhere in the universe
Same reason what youāre looking at is called a āscreenā and a car (from CARraige) is what we call an automobile, a stamp is licked not stamped, hamburgers are sold everywhere but Hamburg and pesticides kill everything but the pests. Fortunately though Off Topic is still Off Topic.
In Oz we often call a vacuum cleaner a āHooverā and sticking plasters āBandaidsā, both from brand names. We still claim Vegemite as a great Australian āfoodā despite the fact US company KRAFT bought it years ago. Hell, politicians are still referred to as āThe Honourableā¦ā!!! So much for getting it right!
As I recall, blueprints were actually developed photographically and not printed with ink at all. Since the developing was a wet process, itās difficult to see how a genuine blueprint could be affected by water.
Well seeing as this has already wobbled completely off topicā¦
In the days when porn films were smuggled, they were coated to make them appear like unexposed film. When the coating was washed off it gave the underlying image a slight blue tint = hence the polite term āBlue Movieā.
Okay seriouslyā¦ Invention
The blueprint process was developed by the British astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1840. The photosensitive compound, a solution of ammonium ferric citrate and potassium ferricyanide, is coated onto paper. Areas of the compound exposed to strong light are converted to insoluble blue ferric ferrocyanide, or Prussian blue. The soluble chemicals are washed off with water leaving a light-stable print.
a top-front-side view is not a blueprint it is a 2D picture thatās it
not a blueprint
In Blender 3D it is normally a file - How can you talk about a file and refer to it as a blueprint what a miss nommer this is !
the relationship is so far fetch and out that it doesn make sense at all !
this word has been taken out of context to the extent that itās out of this world
a file called a blueprint thatās a good one ?
a file is not a piece of paper -where is the relationship!
in the 3D DWG world it should be called as it is and this is and āorthogonal projectionā function of the base which is the unit orthonormal vector of the World coordinate system normally
at least from a mathematical point of view
and in blender it is a reference because it is fixed and unchangeable
Some peoples are sleeping at the wheel or something like that
may be itās time to wake them up and educate these people to give them a part of the truth of reality
For me this is like if people were saying that the moon is a UFO
Ya Wake up itās about time!
Although a blueprint isnāt exactly what it used to be, the term blueprint is so common and generally accepted that everybody knows what your talking about when refering to a blueprint. Calling it something else wouldnāt make sence, just like a file was something different before computers existed.
None of the respondents forgot the main point at all. Some explained how this is hardly an isolated case of misnomer - our language is riddled with them - and others explained how even though you chose to discuss a pedantic point, you had the fundamentals wrong (blueprints were not made with water-soluble inks)
The real question is - so what? I know what a blueprint is when referred to in a CG context and clearly you do to. So whatās the problem? Get back to blending and donāt let yourself get sidetracked by non-issues.
if you make and repeat an error so many times then it becomes an habit until someone comes along and say well thatās not right because under some obscur circomstances ā¦
In other words repeating an error by habit does make it right or the truth
less than 400 years most people tough that the earth was flat till someone came along and tried to use science to explain that the earth in fact was a round sphere - but who the hec was this scientist and who cares !
or sometimes a cigar is a cigar and nothing else
but your right in the world of 3D toontown anything is possible
You see if i still ask question and considering that if you cannot ask question you should begin asking YOURSELF IF YOUR ARE STILL SAIN OR INSAINE
and this was a good day afterall iāv learn a little bit more
it could be an error but atleast itās a generally accepted error. in language errors can be easily accepted because itās not how you say it thatās important, but that you can communicate and get your point across. thatās why i hate grammar class - im the āspirit of the lawā kinda guy rather than a āletter of the lawā guy.
yes american english is declining but itās still the #1 language in the world.
:rolleyes:
