Perspective Projection

by Library Of Congress, Rare Book And Special Collections Division/science Photo Library

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Perspective Projection

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Library Of Congress, Rare Book And Special Collections Division/science Photo Library

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Photograph - Photograph

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Perspective projection. 17th-century illustration of a pinhole viewer being used to draw a reduced scale image of an object on a screen, demonstrating the principles of projection and perspective. This method is a standard artistic technique to draw accurate reduced scale drawings. This illustration is from a collection of 17th-century Italian and Spanish manuscripts.

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September 24th, 2019

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