Friday, May 6, 2011

39) Illusion of Space by Linear Perspective

"As parallel lines recede, they appear to converge and meet on an imaginary line called the horizon, or eye level."  So, the closer together these lines get, the farther away they must be.

http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/linear_perspective.jpg http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit3/0301.jpeg






The lines all converge on the archway showing the sky in the second image and to the end of the hallway in the first because they progressively get closer together and recede to some sort of final point.

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