Perspective: Invention or Discovery?
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Perspective: Invention or Discovery?
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Johannes S.
Here is an animated illustration I did for my animation students about 1 to 5 point perspective. I also explain to them that these are tools to create the illusion of 3d space on a flat surface like a piece of paper, a screen or a cinema canvas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcpkeIiTMCk PS: Marshall is a gem. I am so looking forward to his course.
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Marshall joins me for a conversation about how perspective relates to how we actually see the world. Perspective is a mix of invention and discovery. We've created methods like one-point, two-point, three-point, and fisheye perspectives to help us depict the world on a 2D surface. Getting good at these methods helps us be more creative with our drawings. It lets us move past the limits of sticking to just one method and really capture how complex what we see is.

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Stan Prokopenko
Marshall joins me for a conversation about how perspective relates to how we actually see the world. Perspective is a mix of invention and discovery. We've created methods like one-point, two-point, three-point, and fisheye perspectives to help us depict the world on a 2D surface. Getting good at these methods helps us be more creative with our drawings. It lets us move past the limits of sticking to just one method and really capture how complex what we see is.
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OH my gods, THIS IS MY JAM! Math discovery or invention? ooooh boy do I have opinions. lol Key insight regardless: it's all just a PROJECTION of straight lines in the world onto a curved surface (retina!) and we want to put that on a flat plane! As for multiple vanishing points: every single point on a page can be a vanishing point for some pair of parallel lines.
Help!