Look up: Perspective

1. perspective
   [n] - the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
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2. Perspective
   The way artists create an illusion of a three dimensional image onto a two dimensional painting or drawing. Art techniques used to achieve perspective are: ensuring variation between dimensions of scenes, placing images that are on the ground as lower when nearer and higher when deeper. There are three major types of perspective: aerial, herringbone, and linear.
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3. perspective
   Realistic representation of a three-dimensional object in two dimensions. One-point linear perspective is an effective way to give a picture depth and a sense of distance and space. It is based...
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4. perspective
   (games) In computer games, the virtual position from which the human player views the playing area. There are three different perspectives: first person, second person, and third person. First person perspective: Viewing the world through the eyes of the primary character in three dimensions. e.g. Doom, Quake. Second person perspective: Viewing t…
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5. Perspective
   A system for representing objects in three-dimensional space (ie for representing the visible world) on the two-dimensional surface of a picture. Basic, or linear perspective, was invented in Italy in the early fifteenth century and first developed by the painter Paolo Uccello. Perspective rests on the fact that although parallel lines never meet, …
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6. Perspective
   The angle or level from which the photographer takes the photograph; the camera and photographer's "point of view". The rendition of apparent space in a flat photograph, i.e., how far the foreground and background appear to be separated from each other; determined by only one factor: the camera-to-subject distance; if objects appear in their normal …
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7. Perspective
   Definition (keystage 2) Two geometrical figures with the property that lines joining corresponding points of the two figures all meet at a single point, are said to be in perspective.
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8. Perspective
   Per·spec"tive adjective [ Latin perspicere , perspectum , to look through; per + spicere , specere , to look: confer French perspectif ; or from English perspective , noun See Spy , noun ] 1. Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. [ Obsolete] Bacon. 2. Pertaining to the art, or in accor …
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9. Perspective
   Per·spec"tive noun [ French perspective , from perspectif : confer Italian perspettiva . See Perspective , adjective ] 1. A glass through which objects are viewed. [ Obsolete] "Not a perspective , but a mirror." Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of li …
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10. perspective
    1. A glass through which objects are viewed. "Not a perspective, but a mirror." ... 2. That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of life." ... 3. The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognised them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the …
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11. perspective
    linear perspective noun the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
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12. perspective
    the process of viewing something from a distinct vantage point; or, the impression one has of an object or landscape from particular vantage point
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13. Perspective
    `Perspective` may mean: Literally, in visual topics: * Perspective (visual), is the way in which objects appear to the eye * Perspective (graphical), means to represent the effects of visual perspective in drawings Metaphorically, in relation to cognitive topics: * Perspective (cognitive), one's `point of view`, the choice of a context for opinions, beliefs and experiences * Perspective (pharmacoeconomic), the vantage point from which a pharmaco...
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14. Perspective
    • (a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective. • (n.) Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. • (a.) A drawing in linear perspective. • (a.) A glass through which objects are viewed. • (a.) That which i...
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15. perspective
    (from the article `eye, human`) ...movements of objects in relation to each other when the head is moved. Objects nearer the observer move in relation to more distant points in the ... ...seen touching converging lines, as in the Ponzo illusion, seems larger than another figure of the same size placed between the lines where they ... ...
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16. perspective
    method of graphically depicting three-dimensional objects and spatial relationships on a two-dimensional plane or on a plane that is shallower than ... [10 related articles]
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17. Perspective
    The angle or level from which the photographer takes the photograph; the camera and photographer's "point of view"
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18. perspective
    See point of view
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19. Perspective
    Representing three-dimensional volumes and space in two dimensions in a manner that imitates depth, height and width as seen with stereoscopic eyes
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20. Perspective
    Technique of representing three-dimensional space on a flat or relief surface giving a sense of depth. Linear perspective foreshortens objects as they recede into the distance with lines converging to a vanishing point. Aerial perspective is based on contrasts of colour and shade, which are stronger in the foreground and fainter in the distance.
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21. perspective
    
    1. a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
    2. the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
    
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22. Perspective
    The representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface so as to produce the same impression of distance and relative size as that received by the human eye. In one-point linear prespective, developed during the fifteenth century, all parallel lines in a given visual field converge at a single vanishing point on the horizon. In aerial or atmospheric perspective, the relative distance of ...
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23. perspective
    a way of thinking about or considering something; or a set of assumptions from which an object can be viewed. Knowing which perspec¬tive is assumed is important because the same question can have different an¬swers if different perspectives are assumed. Kant himself does not use this word, but he uses a number of other expressions (such as standpoint, way of thinking, employment of understanding, ...
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