Applied perspective, for architects and painters (1901)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 39
real length of ob, by an isoscelesright triangle mbn; project b< on oe by the Perpendicular bC and lay off og equal to oe. s 2> c 0 c c T i6 APPLIED PERSPECTIVE A Diagonal from e to D below gives./; and one from g gives h. The second square iscompleted by joining eh and gf, or, for… … the two squares. It will be of use in putting circles into perspective. A series of octa-gons, such as is often seen in mosaic pavements, may be easily drawn in a similar way,as we shall see later, by using Perpendiculars and Diagonals. It often happens that the distance point comes too far on one…
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