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By Sally Brown, an NVQ assessor in Cyprus My friend Jane is very arty. Give her a piece of rope and a block of wood and she'd fiddle for a bit, then produce a masterpiece. But she can't do jigsaw puzzles or logical problems. You know those computer graphics that take a three-dimensional object and then swing it round in front of you so you can see all the different views? That's what she can't do. What it means is, when she's drawing a picture, she's stationary, so she gets all the perspective, the shadows, the lighting, and everything the right size in relation to each other in the picture. She's 2D stationary.

My friend Jane is very arty. Give her a piece of rope and a block of wood and she'd fiddle for a bit, then produce a masterpiece. But she can't do jigsaw puzzles or logical problems. You know those computer graphics that take a three-dimensional object and then swing it round in front of you so you can see all the different views? That's what she can't do. What it means is, when she's drawing a picture, she's stationary, so she gets all the perspective, the shadows, the lighting, and everything the right size in relation to each other in the picture. She's 2D stationary.

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