pilkguns
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
As engravers we do a lot of spatial design, trying to incorporate borders, scrolls , game scenes , initials, monograms into a multitude of odd shapes. After awhile we get to where we can see how things will fit together on the object with little or no drawing involved. That's a given.
Now I drive a lot, and to be honest, I like to drive fast and feel the road, and am always judging distances ahead of me, trying figure the best lane to be in to pass slower moving vehicles , even if they are a mile ahead and moving at different speeds in different lanes. Obviously this only works on interstates that are three lanes or higher. But its a game I play a lot, and I am pretty good at it for the most part. Also in the parking lot, I am real good at whipping my car around other vehicles or light posts or whatever obstructions and knowing how close I can get my bumper to theirs without making contact. So much so that it often scares my passengers, (wife included in the list). Okay, I have fondness for 740/940 Volvo wagons, have had four over the last 9 years, two of which are still daily runners, so I have a LOT of familarity with that vehicle and should have good spatial reasoning in those vehicles just from familarity alone.
BUT, last week we bought a 98 GMC Suburban. Quite frankly to me it like being on sailing ship sitting up high and steering down the highway. It's a total different driving perspective, sitting much higher, longer nose, wider nose, different view out the windsheild. But I was driving it around a parking lot, pulling up and turning around, and as well as my passenger, I was somewhat scaring myself, but yet, I continued because I "knew" I had clearance. I was thinking on this, and was wondering if the spatial logic from engraving was transferable into driving skills...... Anybody have any thoughts on the subject?
Now I drive a lot, and to be honest, I like to drive fast and feel the road, and am always judging distances ahead of me, trying figure the best lane to be in to pass slower moving vehicles , even if they are a mile ahead and moving at different speeds in different lanes. Obviously this only works on interstates that are three lanes or higher. But its a game I play a lot, and I am pretty good at it for the most part. Also in the parking lot, I am real good at whipping my car around other vehicles or light posts or whatever obstructions and knowing how close I can get my bumper to theirs without making contact. So much so that it often scares my passengers, (wife included in the list). Okay, I have fondness for 740/940 Volvo wagons, have had four over the last 9 years, two of which are still daily runners, so I have a LOT of familarity with that vehicle and should have good spatial reasoning in those vehicles just from familarity alone.
BUT, last week we bought a 98 GMC Suburban. Quite frankly to me it like being on sailing ship sitting up high and steering down the highway. It's a total different driving perspective, sitting much higher, longer nose, wider nose, different view out the windsheild. But I was driving it around a parking lot, pulling up and turning around, and as well as my passenger, I was somewhat scaring myself, but yet, I continued because I "knew" I had clearance. I was thinking on this, and was wondering if the spatial logic from engraving was transferable into driving skills...... Anybody have any thoughts on the subject?
..... I hate driving, maybe if I drive more I'll become a better engraver 
