M&A: Mini Project

Posted by J. on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Brief
To undertake this project you require access to one or more digital cameras. You have 50 minutes to go out onto the streets and take several photographs which give a strong impression of the linear perspective depth cue.
Subsequently, you should identigy the location of the vanishing point in each photograph and explain your findings. Within this context you should determine other strong cues within the photographs which give an impression of depth.
Submission
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I Kept this one small because the project isn't meant to take that long and I didn't want it to be too texty (!), but I have included a quote, and will probably put my revision/notes up here, if only so my classmates will get lazy...


Note
Source
Linear perspective is a mathematical system for creating the illusion of space and distance on a flat surface. The system originated in Florence, Italy in the early 1400s. The artist and architect Brunelleschi demonstrated its principles, but another architect and writer, Leon Battista Alberti was first to write down rules of linear perspective for artists to follow. Leonardo da Vinci probably learned Alberti's system while serving as an apprentice to the artist Verrocchio in Florence.

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