Hatton, Richard G · London, Chapman & Hall ld. · leaf 21
nverging to C.V.; that the front edge of thefirst square A A touches our picture, and is there actual 3 thatthe first square, AABB, is very distorted in the perspectiveview; that if we place a Distance Point, D.P., as far alongthe horizon as the eye is from the C.V., we can measure thelimits of the… … Fig. ii. say, the line C. If we measure the line CC on our glass, wefind it to be 4 inches; the 12 inches of AA have beenreduced to 4 inches. If, therefore, we start our picture atthe level of C, we have to adopt a scale of 4 inches to 1 foot.We find that this new picture line through C is 6 inches…
Perspective · Drawing
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