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Contributor: Danielle Childers. Lesson ID: 10046
When you look at magazine pictures or the television, things seem flat. That's because they are! They lack a dimension called depth. Learn more about solid shapes, and your world won't seem so flat!
If you have, you know things look like they are coming out of the screen where you can almost touch them!
If you haven’t seen a 3D movie, close your eyes and imagine Spider-Man swinging from building to building. Imagine Spider-Man coming out of the screen and swinging right past you to the next building!
Seeing Spider-Man on the screen and then seeing Spider-Man come at you is the difference between 2D and 3D!
It stands for the word dimension.
This quick video will help you understand more about dimensions and the solid shapes you will learn about in this lesson.
Imagine a block.
If you said a square, a triangle, and a circle, you are right! That is, you were right if you were going to draw them on paper, which is 2D.
Watch the following video to find out.
Yes, a cube!
Yes, a cone!
Correct, a sphere!
Now, you are ready to move to the Got It? section to show what you know!
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