Hints to young architects, comprising advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession, to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise, together with a model specification involving a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter (1887)
Wightwick, George · London, Lockwood · leaf 35
of projection. Let them be chosento pass through the eye, or as representing two planesdrawn through the eye, one horizontal and the othervertical, and both perpendicular to the picture as o x,o Y. These lines will cut the picture planes in x and yrespectively. Then since these axes are determined… … pyramid; and verti-cally also, since x agives the distancefrom the axis x x onthe picture. Thusthe distances from therespective axes x xand Y Y are deter-mined and the pointd fixed. Any otherpoint may be deter-mined in the same manner, and the pyramid completed.Theory of Lines and Planes.—The…
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