Applied perspective, for architects and painters (1901)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 51
on the planVM equal to VS, VM to VS. and VM to VS. Assuming c at a convenient pointof GG1, — here it is plumbed down from the plan, — we draw cd to its proper vanishingpoint V, and measuring off the width of the blade cd to d, draw a measuring line,dM, which cuts off the true length cd on cV. cd is… … MEASUREMENT OF LINES 25 points V and M. To place the corner a, which is not in the picture plane, thesimplest way is to prolong ab in the plan to its trace e, and projecting that into GG,after drawing eVio measure off ea on it at a by the measuring line aM. This problem, like that of the plinth…
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