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# Run the perspective applet at http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/sanders/TryPersp.gsp.html and get a feeling for the behavior of a cube in two-point perspective. | # Run the perspective applet at http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/sanders/TryPersp.gsp.html and get a feeling for the behavior of a cube in two-point perspective. | ||
# Where is the horizon line in [[Inside St. Peter's]] ({{magic}} #32)? Where are the vanishing points? | # Where is the horizon line in [[Inside St. Peter's]] ({{magic}} #32)? Where are the vanishing points? | ||
Revision as of 23:18, 1 December 2015
Objective: Learn to identify the horizon line and vanishing points in perspective drawings.
Materials: Printed copy of House of Stairs
- Run the perspective applet at http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/sanders/TryPersp.gsp.html and get a feeling for the behavior of a cube in two-point perspective.
- Where is the horizon line in Inside St. Peter's (Magic of M.C. Escher #32)? Where are the vanishing points?
- What's going on in House of Stairs (Magic of M.C. Escher #126)? There is a vanishing point in an arched doorway near the top of the picture. Find a curl-up that thinks the point is on the horizon, another that thinks the point is a nadir, and another that thinks the point is a zenith.
- What's going on in Up and Down (Magic of M.C. Escher #139)?
- What's going on in Relativity? Explain.
Handin: A sheet with answers to all questions.
