2006-06-20 04:37:36 · 7 answers · asked by jay 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
It depends on your definition of line or edge. I would argue that in fact there are only forms or masses in nature, no lines. A line would be an infinitely thin mass. Even a human hair has some thickness, so it's not really just a line. However, when we draw with a pen, the pen has some minimum thickness of line, and so we are forced to make certain abstractions to render thin masses like hairs (i.e. we refer to them with lines on paper when in fact that is a slight abstraction).
2006-06-20 04:43:01 · answer #1 · answered by moore850 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends if you talk about the volume of an object or what is on it. If you ask any art teacher, TRUE. Because if you try to define a volume with a line, it's not a depiction of nature. It's an interpretation of it. If you want to, for example, draw an apple from life, you shouldn't use a contour line but focus on how the light delimitates the edges of the volume of the object. Unless you do a rendering exercise that is...
2006-06-20 04:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by Aline S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say false. You are not specifically saying str8 lines. You just mention a line, and that is a very general. There are lines in everything though sometimes curved, edges (though this doesn't always occur naturally) and even some str8. Nature is a bounty of each; it's all in the eye of a beholder..
2006-06-20 04:54:24 · answer #3 · answered by Shannon S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is actually a science/math question, and the answer is "true" a line is a distance between two points, but it doesn't actually occupy any space, it is more of a measurement. If you get close enough to any "line" in nature, it has mass and volume, and is actually a thing, with an edge.
2006-06-20 10:03:38 · answer #4 · answered by Jonny Propaganda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spider webs make me think that is false.
On the other hand, the definition of a line-it has only one dimension, length, no height or width. Not possible in the observable physical world. If it had more than one dimension, it would be a plane or a solid.
2006-06-20 04:45:00 · answer #5 · answered by cdb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the defination.. but as a hunter when i'm in the woods,,, when all the edges come together & I see a "straight line" it's never caused by nature .. such as tree stand ladders
2006-06-20 04:50:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
false
2006-06-20 04:43:24 · answer #7 · answered by Pj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋