‡ The main point you need to remember is

that things appear smaller the further they

are away.
‡ However, if you have two identical items
± such as lamp posts on the railway platform in
the picture
‡ you know they are in reality the same size,
even though the nearer one looks bigger.
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‡ Look at the two sketches of the four different
figures below.
± they are all looking directly at spot on the brick wall on
the left directly in line with the height of their eyes
from the ground.
± Imagine that they can't see anything else either side
or above or below it.
‡ They're all different because each figure is at a
different height so they're seeing different things.

 



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‡ They all see the same brick from a
different angle
± it will appear to each of them to be a slightly
different shape.
‡ The figures are either:
± looking down at the brick
± one is looking straight at it
± two are looking up at it.
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‡ Now let's look at the three sketches of a

house.

‡ Each one is slightly different.

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‡ The first is the proverbial worm's eye view.
‡ The second has your eye level set on the
centre of the house, as if you were
standing up.
‡ As your eye level moves to the top of the
house in the third view you are looking
down as if you were at an upper window in
another house.
 anishing Points
‡ The two points on either side of the
building where all the construction lines
meet are called..

The anishing Points

‡ a theoretical point where all these lines

join up and 'vanish'.
The bottles appear to have
± Grown
± Shrunk
± moved forward
± backwards
on the shelf.
‡ Once you have found your vanishing point

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