Is there any hard math in graphic design?
Posted by James on December 20, 2011 · 2 Comments
Question by PunKiiÑatzii?: Is there any hard math in graphic design?
This year im gonna do graphic design but i hate math. Somebody played with my mind and told me u need to know math to do graphic design. but im just a total stupid in maths. and i hate it .. so i just wanna if there is any hard math in it !!! thankyouuuu …
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Answer by josephites2030
actually there is NO HARD math involved in graphic design…..but that again dependss on what kind of graphic design u wanna do…..if it isrelatingg to printing and publishing of hoardings etc….u may need to know the conversion tables of inches to feet and so on and a simple addition and subtraction is more that enough…..udon’tt need to do some a+b^6 etc….and u may need to dotrigonometryy if…that is the (BIG IF) u wanna do Flash animation (related to graphic design) which involves mathematical codes etc
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No, there’s not really any maths required, except perhaps for working out where the exact centre of a page lies.
But that’s arithmetic and not hard math.
Depends on what you consider “hard.”
Suppose you have an image described as eight megapixels in size. You want it printed at three hundred pixels per inch.
What size will the final print be?
Simple math will tell you the answer.
Or, if you have an image, ten inches by ten inches at 150 pixels per inch. You can figure that the total number of pixels can be determined by the simple equation of 1500 pixels (150 timed ten) multiplied by the other dimension of 1500 pixels. That’s fine, but, how large is the picture, in pixels if you double the resolution? One would think that it it would be double the total pixels but, if you do the simple math, you will find that the total number of pixels is quadrupled!
It isn’t “hard” math, but it is real. And this kind of simple math is applied all over the graphics industry. Type is measured in points and picas. There are 72 points per inch. How many points are letters that are seven and a half inches high?
And so on.