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What is “Perspective?”

• A mechanism for portraying 3D in 2D

• “True Perspective” corresponds to

projection onto a plane

• “True Perspective” corresponds to an

ideal camera image


Differert Perspectives Used

• Mechanical Engineering

• Cartography

• Art


Perspective in Art

• “Naïve” (wrong)

• Egyptian

• Cubist (unrealistic)

• Esher

– Impossible (exploits local property)

– Hyperpolic (non-planar)

– etc


“True” Perspective in 2Dy

x

(x,y)

p

h


“True” Perspective in 2D

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ph



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This is right answer for screen projection



1 1

1

1 0 0

0 1 0

0 1 1px

x

xp p

pyx p

x

p

pp

x x

y y

x

y


Perspective in Art

• Naïve (wrong)

• Egyptian

• Cubist (unrealistic)

• Esher

• Miro

• Matisse


Egyptian Frontalism

• Head profile

• Body front

• Eyes full

• Rigid style

Uccello's (1392-1475) hand drawing was the first extant complex geometrical form rendered according to the laws of linear perspective

Perspective Study of a Chalice, Drawing, Gabinetto dei Disegni, Uffizi, Florence, ca 1430)

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Perspective in Cubism

Woman with a Guitar (1913) G

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Madre con niño muerto (1937)

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Pablo P

icaso

Pablo Picaso, Cabeza de mujer llorando con pañuelo

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Perspective (Mural) Games

M C Esher, Another World II

(1947)


PerspectiveAscending and Descending (1960)

M C

Escher


M C Escher

• Perspective is “local”• Perspective consistency is not

“transitive”

• Nonplanar (hyperbolic)

projection


Nonplanar (Hyperbolic) Projection

M C Esher, Heaven and Hell


Nonplanar (Hyperbolic) Projection

M C Esher, Heaven and

Hell


David McAllister

The March of Progress,

(1995)


Joan Miro: Flat Perspective

The Tilled Field

What cues are missing?

Henri Matisse, La Lecon de

Musique

Flat Perspective: What cues are

missing?

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Atlas Projection


Norway is at High Latitude

There is considerable size distortion


Isometric View


Engineering Drawing: 2 Planes

AA

AA

Section AA



x

(x,y)

p

h



pxpyh

pxy

ph



1

1

1

1 0 0

0 1 0

0 1 1 xp p

pyx p

pxx p

x pp

px

x p

py

x p

x x

y y

x

y


Geometry is Same for Eye at Originy

x

(x,y)

p

h

Screen Plane


What Happens to Special Points?

What is this point??

1

1 0 0

0 1 0

0 1 1 0

0 0

p

p p


Let’s Look at Limit

1

1lim 0 0

01

n

nn

n

We see that

Observe,

on -axis0

nx


Where does Eye Point Go?

• It gets sent to on x-axis

• Where does on x-axis go?


What happens to ?

1 1

1 11 0 0

0 1 0

0 1 10

0 0 00

p p

p p

It comes back to virtual eye point!


What Does This Mean?

x

y

p


What Does This Mean?y

p

x


The “Pencil of Lines” Becomes Parallel

y

x


Parallel Lines Become “Pencil of Lines” !

x

y


What Does This Mean?

x

y

p



p



p

p

p

p

p

p

p

p


Viewing Frustum


What happens for large p?”

1 0 01 0 0

0 1 0 0 1 0

0 1 0 1

1

1 01 1

lim 0

p

p

x x

y y

p


Projection Becomes Orthogonal: “Right Thing Happens”

x

(x,y)

h=y

p

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