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
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
The actor Alec Baldwin, a friend, said, “Beard was someone who went to Africa at a vanishing point in time and tapped into that spirit.”
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2020
Vitruvius described something like perspective painting, but the Renaissance invented a new combination of subjectivity and objectivity, the situated viewer and the vanishing point.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
