Reverse fishbone perspective
After the discovery of perspective during the Renaissance, the rules of perspective became so familiar that people began to look down on earlier painters or artists from other cultures, who did not follow those rules, such as the 'Flemish Primitives', or Byzantine iconographic drawers. In...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Belgrade - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade
2017-01-01
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| Series: | FME Transactions |
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| Online Access: | https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1451-2092/2017/1451-20921702209H.pdf |
| Summary: | After the discovery of perspective during the Renaissance, the rules of perspective became so familiar that people began to look down on earlier painters or artists from other cultures, who did not follow those rules, such as the 'Flemish Primitives', or Byzantine iconographic drawers. In this paper we recall a method for explaining the well-known regular perspective and parallel projection based on the classical Monge top view and profile view. Next, we combine regular perspective and parallel projection to get Panofsky's so-called 'fishbone perspective', showing it is the logical result of an algorithmic construction. It also illustrates the analogy between the vertical fishbone method and the horizontal one. It can be combined with the above mentioned reverse perspective in which objects are drawn as if they are seen from some imaginary point behind the screen and above the observer, that is, from 'the heavens' (though the present paper argues it should rather be from a point below, from 'hell'). The algorithmic construction methods also explain why there are intermediate forms, and thus the critiques, using mainly philosophical arguments, were perhaps too unforgiving. |
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| ISSN: | 1451-2092 2406-128X |