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Alberto Adrián Schiano on 2006-11-14

Some studies about perspectives and a real representation of it
abrahamdortmund on 2007-12-23

I'm here to undermine your world view. We always assume that what we are taught about perspective is the way we actually see. But it's not.In the outside world there are straight lines, so we put them that way into our pictures. We have developed complicated schemes of geometrical rules to guide us. We take photos with cameras that have lenses that carefully distort the world to make it fit with the expectation that straight line should be straight. But visually they are not.Have you ever tried to draw that really large checker board floor? Somehow at the far right and left it goes all stretched. Do the same thing with circles on the floor and it gets really wild.
franklinschlop on 2008-01-09

I'm here to undermine your world view. We always assume that what we are taught about perspective is the way we actually see. But it's not.
In the outside world there are straight lines, so we put them that way into our pictures.

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