Tutorial One: Writing Instructions

The exercise we had to complete in this tutorial was deigned to show us what it is like for the computer to process the instructions we give it and how specific we have to be.

The object that i chose to write instructions for was my tube of lip balm. 

This a picture (above) of the instructions I wrote for my object. Although it is hard to read the instructions in this photo form, it is still easy to see that it took nearly a whole page of instructions to produce the drawing below. I decided to create my object using only lines and simple shapes yet I still had to include huge amounts of detail so the person drawing would understand what I was asking for.

I thought this was a very successful exercise as it really showed how we have to be super clear in what we want the computer to do otherwise it will not understand and you will end up with the complete wrong thing. I found this when having to draw using my neighbors instructions as even though it seems completely clear to them what is being asked and what they want you to do, if its not perfectly accurate you can so easily interpret  it as something else entirely.