2D and 3D web icons design - what's the big difference?
Speaking about 3d Icons we should point out that the source of light plays a very essential role for creating authentic three-dimensional images. It's appropriate and even advisable to use several light sources in web site design today but they should follow basic laws of physics and be truthful. So if you need to make 3D web icons look softer and much more realistic - use several lights.
Both 2D and 3D icons represent the volume found in the three-dimensional world but use various methods of creating this illusion. Undoubtedly the volume can be represented by 3D Icons to much more extent than 2D Icons. More often the images are flat and show just one perspective. To this weakness you can also add another one - detailed highlights and imperceptible soft shadows are missing. The shades usage is restricted as well.
3D icons have got all these features instead. But 3D is mathematical replication of the data which in any case limits its usage. In some cases you can easily replace 3D Icons by 2D ones or by the videos with the sounds - but all this depends on situation. The sounds give some extra dimensionality to the videos that actually use 2D images.3D dimension can be created with the software used for 3D modeling. It is important to show 3D icons in correlation with the other objects in the neighborhood and the environment they are placed into.
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