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Imagery · Synthetic & found

3D render

Computer-generated objects, scenes and textures.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under imagery: what kind of pictures, if any?

styles make it: 28
as a defining choice: 3
as a usual one: 12
now and then: 13
avoid it: 16

Styles defined by it 3

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Y2K Futurism1997–2005 · Global / networkedThe optimistic, chrome-plated vision of the future that surrounded the turn of the millennium, spread by consumer electronics, music videos, games, fashion and dot-com branding.
Low Poly Illustration2012–present · Global / networkedA digital illustration and game look in which subjects are built from a visible mesh of a few flat-shaded polygons, so that animals, faces, vehicles and landscapes read as hard-edged facets with no outline or texture.
Claymorphism & Soft 3D2020–present · Global / networkedA soft, toy-like 3D look from product design around 2020, given the name 'claymorphism' in a December 2021 article by Michał Malewicz.

Styles that often use it 12

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 13

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Web & CSSin 23 of 28
Motion & broadcastin 22 of 28
Gradientsin 22 of 28
Technological & futuristin 19 of 28
Illusion of depthin 20 of 28
Gloss & highlightsin 15 of 28

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in imagery