I don’t know if my 3ds Max upbringing has spoiled me but I have always harboured the belief that making a wireframe render should be as simple as ticking a box marked “Wireframe” and then pressing render.
Maya, however, disagrees with me. She believes that that would be to easy. “If you could just click a button, you wouldn’t really think about what kind of wireframe you really wanted,” she seems to say to me. “I mean,” she continues, “maybe you just wanted a simple wireframe render, but what if you wanted a wireframe with a thickness? Or one that was a bit wiggly? Or one that turns slightly red based on the distance to the nearest torus-shaped object?”
When I tell her “but honestly, I just wanted a simple wireframe render,” she pauses for a bit before turning away from me, quietly sobbing.
I then boot up Firefox.
Women do complex!-You ought to understand that by now…
Yeah, I really should by now, shouldn’t I? Oh well… Maybe next time.
Puzzling isn’t it?
One of my first ‘animations’ was a rotating ‘hologram’ of planet rendered using wireframe in 3dsmax. in the 90’s!
It scares me that after all these years, I can’t reproduce that same effect using tools I’ve learned in the years that have past.
I’m… unevolving!?