Applied perspective, for architects and painters (1901)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 144
el to bd, so that the figure is laidout from the line ab, which becomes a front line. Then the reciprocal lines «/and 4^nolonger contain the sides, but make a series of inscribed equilateral triangles like afb, onwhich the hexagons may be constructed. We lay off then on our line of measures theside… … HEXAGONS AND RECIPROCAL VANISHING POINTS 81 draw a line through the vertex of the adjoining triangle at g which will cut off the sidebd of the first hexagon on the Perpendicular bC, and a front line through d cuts off allthe corresponding sides of the first row of hexagons. A few diagonals like ad…
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