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> The ribs on the handle of a knife are skeuomorphic of the vines wrapped on the hand end of a sharpened stone. What? No. None of that. Even if vines wrapped
by andrewflnr 5mo ago
> The ribs on the handle of a knife are skeuomorphic of the vines wrapped on the hand end of a sharpened stone.
What? No. None of that. Even if vines wrapped around a sharp stone were ever common, no one alive today (outside an uncontacted tribe maybe) is "familiar" enough with them to make a difference.
Texturing handles is just an obvious mechanical thing to increase grip that probably gets invented every time someone makes a handle from a smooth material.
- Skeuomorph 5mo ago[flagged]
- paleotrope 5mo agoBut the ribbing or texture serves an actual purpose, so it's not quite skeuomorphic. It's not pure ornamental.
- andrewflnr 5mo agoWhere it exists at all. Most knives you'll actually encounter aren't ribbed at all. There are lots of ways to provide grip and all of them are used.
- andrewflnr 5mo agoThe crazy thing is, you gave a perfectly good definition of skeuomorphism, then keep using the word in a different and sillier way. You're doing the same thing you accuse the video of.
- King-Aaron 5mo agoI'd like to agree that it was a bit of a strange and incorrect comparison to make. Also, I may be incorrect here, but I thought skeuomorphism just refers to ornamental design cues, not functional design features.