Applied perspective, for architects and painters (1901)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 94
f we fix the eye at theproper distance just in front of C, the axis of the tower will seem to draw back into itsproper position and the awkwardness of the eaves line to disappear, but if the toweris the principal object in the picture, it is not likely to be looked at from this position,the… … « ou H zo« PERSPECTIVE DISTORTION An objection that is brought against perspective is that an object of known form,carefully constructed by it, will sometimes look wrong, like the eaves of the octagonaltower in Fig. 74, and even seem offensively distorted. It is indeed inevitable that whenthe eye…
Perspective
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