Sunday, May 22, 2016

Persp

Benn reviewing perspective. One point perspective has a vanishing point in the
center of the cube:


Two-point perspective has one on each of left and right:

Three-point perspective has a left, a right and here a bottom off the drawing:
                                               
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So here is a little brain teaser. What does the relationship between the lengths of the outer and inner square need to be so that one is indeed dealing with a cube. Once you are willing to give up on the question, read the commentary below.
3D graphics sometimes suffer from lost of depth, a topic one finds under
irreversible transformations. Could be that well, it depends on the distance the viewer is
from the artifact.


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