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Early Perspective Painting and the Beginnings of Projective Geometry. The cone of visual rays has its vertex at the eye. A perspective painting is a section of this cone by a plane. Devices.
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Early Perspective Painting and the Beginnings of Projective Geometry
The cone of visual rays has its vertex at the eye. A perspective painting is a section of this cone by a plane.
But isn’t the perspective construction something to do with vanishing points??That seems like a different idea!
Why is this construction correct? DE:BC = AE:AC = HE:GC But BC = GC, so DE = HE
Two pencils of lines These are EQUIVALENT in projective geometry: one can be transformed into the other.
Art and optics • A recent symposium considered the possibility that Renaissance perspective effects did not require geometrical construction after all! The suggestion is that artists used lenses and mirrors to project images, and trace them. • http://www.artandoptics.com