Perspective, a series of elementary lectures (1899)
Cone, Ada · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 17
they would appear to converge. This convergence causes the farther side of an object to appear smaller than the nearer side. For if the retreating lines of an object, as the top and bottom of a door, being parallel, appear to converge, then the farther upright line, being of the same length as the… … which lines, according to the law of perspective, appear to converge. In other words the stick grows smaller constantly as the distance increases. (See Fig. 4.) Of a row of houses equal in size, the house nearest the spectator will appear largest, and they will decrease in size as the distance…
Perspective · Drawing
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