This is a BMW car. The first picture is the tracing of the car out with quite a bit of the details of the car included. I thought of removing the detail part by part leaving only the outline which will be the most abstract one. Therefore I started off with a very detailed car, then I slowly removed the parts that I think that is not important to a car. I removed the lines that only make the car looks nicer in the 2nd picture. Like those lines in the car bottom and in the rim of the wheel. On the 3rd picture, I further simplify the rim of the wheel . Now the wheel is just 2 circle, but since the shape is still there it still resembles a wheel alot. The the side mirror is removed simplified window , since it is not that important feature of a car as compared to the window as a whole. I further simplified the lines of the body of the car a bit here and there. The general outline is also simplified a bit but not very significant. The 4th picture I further simplifying the car by leaving only the key features that must exist for a car to be a functioning car. Those are the windows, car lights, wheels. I simplify the window and removing the rest of the features in the 5th picture since for me a car to be car must at least have the shape of the car and a window, but I did simply the window by combining into 1. In the last picture only the outline of the car is left with some simple simplification of the lines here and there.
I thought that being abstract is just removing and combining of the features of the car, just like the example shown in the lecture( eg. combining the buttons, making the screen more simple and eventually removing more and more of the features of the calculator). Therefore I did the same to the car. But most of the elements in the the car are hard to combine together since they are either too different of too far away. Most of the simplification is just removing or redrawing into more simple elements. Not many elements are combined except the window.
Problems/suggestions mention in the class.
1) it's not abstract enough, as people can still tell that it is a car.
2) simplify it more
3) leaving the last one as a box and 2 circle only
4) maybe just wheels or steering wheels only for the last one
5) using of more simple shapes
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