1“Perspective is nothing else than the seeing of an object through a sheet of glass, on the surface of which may be marked all the things that are behind the glass.”-- LeonardoIn the Renaissance Filippo BrunelleschiDiscovered PerspectiveItalian Art in the Late Middle Ages Before the Discovery of Perspectivedi Giovanni Fei, “The Presentationof the Virgin” (c. 1400)di Bartolo, “The Nativity ofthe Virgin” (c. 1400)2The First Perspective ImageMasaccio’s fresco “Trinity” (c. 1427)Perspective in ArtGiotto, 1300(before perspective)Campin, 1430(after perspective)3Devices for Drawing PerspectiveCamera Obscura4Camera LucidaPerspectograph5Jan Vermeer, “The Music Lesson” (c. 1664)Perspective in Artoptical centersceneimage planePinhole Camera6Pinhole Cameraimage coordinatesAlberti’s GridPinhole Camera7Suggesting a Moving CameraA multiperspective image incorporates many perspectives into a single, locally-coherent imageA moving window slides across the panorama, selecting frames for creating an animationfrom Disney’s film Pinocchio, 1940Multiperspective Image8Extracted framesMultiperspective Image9van Eyck’s “Ghent Alterpiece”(1432)Hockney’s “Pearblossum Highway”(1986)10Fisheye Lens ImageNot a single optical center11Omnidirectional
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