Perspective Lines

Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) is an approximate representation, on a flat surface, of an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are that objects are drawn: Smaller as their distance from the observer increases and Foreshortened: the size of an object’s dimensions along the line of sight are relatively shorter than dimensions across the line of sight.

Photograph copyright (c) Trevi Bennett 2012