Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 100
l he seen endwise, and appear as a point exactly covering thevanishing point of the system to which it belongs. If, for illustration, the eye glances directly along one of thehorizontal lines formed by the courses of a stone wall, this huewill be seen as a point, and all the other horizontal lines… … ing point of any system of lines must lie on that element of thesystem 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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