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

Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 26

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If you want to give an appearance of strong according as we are looking up or down stream, current to a river, you can do so by making the This picture represents a river rushing out of a banks, and the objects floating on its surface, lake. I have made the banks and boat vanish in a vanish in… … Here we are looking down stream. AccordinglyI have drawn the banks and boats running downto points below the horizon. The lower thesepoints, the swifter the river will seem to run. We are as yet only on the threshold of thesubject, which becomes more complicated as wego on. It is not difficult to…

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