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Perspective: Principle IV

The Role of Perspective in Shaping the Renaissance


4. All sets of parallel lines lying within a particular plane in space have vanishing points that fall on the horizon line defined by that plane. In Fig. 5, three sets of converging parallels are shown converging on the same horizon. The fourth set, the transversals, may be said to converge at the horizon at infinity to the left and right.


 
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