Virtues of verisimilitude in design and art

While most design firms, professional artists, and educational programs continue to use conventional graphic modalities to communicate design intent and aesthetic expression, recent developments in computer graphics promise to revolutionize attitudes artists and designers now hold toward their work. Artists and designers will have to adopt new attitudes regarding the information utility of optical realism now found only occasionally in architectural rendering and the visual arts. Old attitudes relegate optical realism to a limited role in sales and promotion. New attitudes promise to relegate conventional graphics to history and substitute a seamless, nonsymbolic, information laden, visual, tactile, and kinetic art and design communication technique called virtual reality.