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Nature's laws and the making of pictures (1903)

Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 19

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rules we have established for their height—the furrows vanishing to a pointin the far distance ; the shadows cast by the menradiating from another point on the right, justunder the sun. As a matter of fact, however, sloping plains innature soon curve into valleys or hills ; so as soonas you have… … In this drawing I have ruled a line right acrossthe picture to act as horizon to the sloping planeof sand, and have marked it vanishing-line ofsloping sand, because the slope of the shore, if itstretched away to infinity, would appear to end inthis line. Now this helps me to make all the menthe…

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