On 6/10/2011 8:24 PM, Invisible wrote:
>>> Really, the accident happened on a straight section of motorway. If I'm
>>> going to use a vector drawing package, it wouldn't take too long to draw
>>> a couple of straight lines and dashed lines to represent the road. The
>>> hard part would be drawing something to represent the vehicles...
>>
>> Clip-Art. For example SketchUp has vast libraries of objects and no
>> doubt there are many types of vehicles amongst them.
>
> The only vector drawing package I know of is Inkscape - which doesn't
> come with anything like that. Although I guess I could use SketchUp.
> It's not really optimal for 2D work, but I guess you could do it.
>
>> Don't underestimate the appearance of reality in anything intended to
>> convince people of some sequence of events.
>
> I could probably produce something detailed enough in a few seconds with
> a simple pencil and paper. (Ah, but you can't email that to people...)

Well scan it or take a digital photo - obviously if you access to such 
gear.  Or fax it.  Or draw it in paint.  You could surely produce 
something good enough that way.

But my point was that something more professional looking is more 
convincing.  Perhaps it shouldn't be that way but impressions do count.

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