Why did it take us so long to be able to draw in 3D while humans have been sculpting 3D statues for millennia?

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Why did it take us so long to be able to draw in 3D while humans have been sculpting 3D statues for millennia?

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3D animation requires a computer that can track the coordinates of thousands of points and accurately render an image of what all those points would look like from a certain angle with a certain light source. It wasn’t until the second half of the 20th century that technology could accomplish that.

If you didn’t mean 3D animation, then whatever you’re thinking of we probably *have* been doing for millennia. Mobiles, puppets, automata…

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