Applied perspective, for architects and painters (1901)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 57
sions being enlarged, or diminished in due proportion whenthey are transferred to the picture. Inasmuch as in large drawings the vanishingpoints are apt to come very far off, it is often convenient to construct the chart to asmaller scale than the picture. If the Station Point and one vanishing… … diameter. It is a common practice to take V zx\A. V as far apart as the paper or thedrawing board allows, and adjust 5 and C to suit them. Pins are often stuck into theboard at ^and V, and if a draughtsmans triangle or square is thrust between them,its right angle may be swung round to describe the…
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