Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 95
l be seen endwise, and appear as a point exactly covering thevanishing point of the system to which it belongs. If, for illnstration, the eye glances directly along one of thehorizontal lines formed by the courses of a stone wall, this hnewill be seen as a point, and all the other horizontal hnes… … ing point of any system of lines must lie on that element of tiiusystem which enters the observers eye, and must be at an infinitedistance from the observer. Therefore, to find the vanishingpoint of any system of lines, imagine one of its elements to enterthe observers eye. This element is called…
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