Back نقطة تلاش Arabic Puntu de fuga AST Убежна точка Bulgarian Punt de fuga Catalan Fluchtpunkt German Punto de fuga Spanish Ihespuntu Basque نقطه گریز Persian Point de fuite French נקודת מגוז HE
A vanishing point is a point on the image plane of a perspective rendering where the two-dimensional perspective projections of mutually parallel lines in three-dimensional space appear to converge. When the set of parallel lines is perpendicular to a picture plane, the construction is known as one-point perspective, and their vanishing point corresponds to the oculus, or "eye point", from which the image should be viewed for correct perspective geometry.[1] Traditional linear drawings use objects with one to three sets of parallels, defining one to three vanishing points.
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Italian humanist polymath and architect Leon Battista Alberti first introduced the concept in his treatise on perspective in art, De pictura, written in 1435.[2] Straight railroad tracks are a familiar modern example.[3]
- ^ Kirsti Andersen (2007) Geometry of an Art, p. xxx, Springer, ISBN 0-387-25961-9
- ^ Wright, D. R. Edward (1984). "Alberti's De Pictura: Its Literary Structure and Purpose". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 47: 52–71. doi:10.2307/751438. JSTOR 751438. S2CID 195046955.
- ^ Ames, Gregory P. (Summer 2023). "TO PIERCE THE DISTANCE: Untold dimensions of the railroad vanishing point". Railroad Heritage. Center for Railroad Photography & Art. pp. 24–67. Retrieved 24 February 2024.