Perspective - Vision and Mathematics

Vision and Mathematics

  • Perspective (visual), the way in which objects appear to the eye
  • Perspective (graphical), representing the effects of visual perspective in graphic arts
  • Perspective distortion (photography), the way that viewing a picture from the wrong position gives a perceived distortion
  • Perspective (geometry), a property of triangles

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