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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Main Author: Huylebrouck Dirk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Belgrade - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade 2017-01-01
Series:FME Transactions
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-665cb544825e4cf788e386253896adb12022-12-21T20:32:30ZengUniversity of Belgrade - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, BelgradeFME Transactions1451-20922406-128X2017-01-014522092141451-20921702209HReverse fishbone perspectiveHuylebrouck Dirk0Faculty for Architecture, KU Leuven, BelgiumAfter 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.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1451-2092/2017/1451-20921702209H.pdfdescriptive geometryfishbone perspectiveoblique projectionreverse or byzantine perspective
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descriptive geometry
fishbone perspective
oblique projection
reverse or byzantine perspective
title Reverse fishbone perspective
title_full Reverse fishbone perspective
title_fullStr Reverse fishbone perspective
title_full_unstemmed Reverse fishbone perspective
title_short Reverse fishbone perspective
title_sort reverse fishbone perspective
topic descriptive geometry
fishbone perspective
oblique projection
reverse or byzantine perspective
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