Chapter 3Setting It All Up
Perspective is designed to help you imagine and control how someone, a viewer, is looking at something. It helps you determine what they see and how they see it – and therefore how we draw it. We’ll go into detail about how this works. Once you understand the underlying ideas that govern perspective, the mechanics of it all become straightforward and almost elementary.
To make the most of what follows, we should first agree on some general terminology.
- Plane – A flat, even surface used to describe a specific direction in space.
- Parallel – Lines or planes that, even when infinitely extended, remain the same distance from each other. When things are parallel to each other, they never meet.
- Perpendicular – Lines or ...
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