Monday, January 18, 2010

Isometric, Oblique and Orthographic Drawing

Isometric means:

  • coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angles between any two of them are 120 degrees.
  • Used in technical and engineering drawings.


Oblique can mean:
  • perpendicular
  • not straightforward
  • indirect
  • obscure

Orthographic Drawing is:

  • Form of Parallel Projection
  • Orthogonal to projection plane.

All the above information are adapted as follows:

Isometric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_projection

Oblique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique

Orthographic projection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_projection

Saturday, January 16, 2010

ADMT Environment Definition

Environment definitions:
Source:
Macintosh Dictionary:

Meaning 1: the surroundings or conditions in which a person,animal or plant lives or operates. e.g a field or a city district etc.
Alternate meaning 1: the setting or condition in which a particular activity is carried on. e.g a place that sets a condition for human activity.
Alternate Meaning 2: Computing the overall structure within which a user,computer or program operates. e.g programming etc.
Alternate Meaning 3: the natural world, as a whole or in a a particular geographical area especially as affected by human activity.
e.g mother earth

Source:
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment

Meaning 1: a Built Environment in which it is constructed to provide setting for human activity.Like the world we now live in
Alternate Meaning 1: a Natural Environment is constructed in which all living and non-living occur on Earth.It can also interpreted as something living and non-living things share.
Alternate Meaning 2: a Social Environment is the culture that an individual lives in and the people and institutions with whom they interact it can also be in where communications take place
Alternate Meaning 3: it can also be a Desktop Environment which relates to computing and it is a graphical user interface to the computer
Like user friendly interface so on..

Source:
The Free Dictionary:
www.thefreedictionary.com/environment

Meaning 1: it is the circumstances or conditions that surround one e.g objects living things etc.
Alternate Meaning 1: the totality of circumstances surrounding an organism or group of organism. Its like a sum up of all living things and non-living things
Alternate Meaning 2: in computer science, it relates to an entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer as it relates to the hardware, operating hardware operating platform or operating system

In conclusion,
My opinion of Environment is:
Built Environment: A setting in which all living or non-living things share.
Natural Environment: A sum up of all living things and non-living things in existence
Computer Science: A graphical user interface in which its entire set of conditions operates as one to form hardware, software operating platform of operating system

Last but not least, Environment can relate to many types of environment on earth and it exists in different meanings.

Monday, January 11, 2010

ADMT Lesson 1: Personal Reflection

1. What does ADMT means to you?

It means alot to me because i feel very honoured that only our school provides this subject

2. What are the attitude that an ADMT student should have?

an ADMT student should be patient and can do some critical thinking and is also creative

3. What are you aspiration as an ADMT student?

I hope to achieve alot through ADMT because i am probably 1 of 200 secondary student in singapore doing this subject because it is such a rare opportunity.

4. How do you think you can achieve your aspiration?

I think i can achieve that through having patience and being creative