vanishing point
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The fixed vanishing point, where all lines of vision converge, corresponds to a viewer standing before the picture, motionless in time and space.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023
“The vanishing point corresponding to parallel lines on the screen, price, and ‘Don’t blame…’ text are inconsistent,” Farid wrote.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2022
She stood in the door of the room recently and pointed to the galleries and shelves slanting off into a vanishing point, 213 feet away at the far end.
From New York Times • May 28, 2022
Yet after decades of dominating ideas about how a writer should live and work, Hemingway feels increasingly irrelevant today, his influence diminished to a vanishing point, his reputation corroded by a dated personal mythos.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2021
When “parallel” lines converge at the vanishing point in a painting, observers are tricked into believing that the lines never meet.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
