Applied Perspective For Architects And Painters

Author : William P. P. Longfellow
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ISBN 13 : 9781332323784
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Applied Perspective written by William P. P. Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Applied Perspective: For Architects and Painters The practice of perspective depends not so much on many principles as on the varied applications of a few. It is easy to acquire enough for every-day use: the skilful draughtsman is he who has gained an instinctive readiness of resource that fits him to meet a variety of exigencies as they arise. In writing this book I have had in mind both the every-day use and the skilled use. In the first Part I have given what seemed necessary to qualify the student for ordinary perspective work, and in the second have included a series of special problems, to show what trained draughtsmen actually do. To these I have added discussions of some more theoretical topics - the perspective of oblique planes, the tangents and axes of circles, tri-conjugate vanishing points - which should be of value to students to whom perspective is a study interesting in itself, and should smooth the way to the more complicated problems that sometimes occur. Feeling the paramount importance of what may be called the perspective sense, the faculty of perceiving perspective relations in what is before one in nature or in imagination, I have taken pains to set forth these relations as they appear to the eye, and to show how they influence the painters or the architects way of looking at things. He who has such a sense will And it easy to acquire the various special devices and the instinct which he needs for the exigencies of practice. He who lacks it will make hard labor of mastering any but the most obvious processes, and will always be liable to be blocked in his work by an unusual problem. The processes and devices are so abundant, offer so many ways of saving labor and securing precision, that the adept differs from the ordinary draughtsman as the skilled watchmaker from the workman who knows only enough to oil a Connecticut clock. Out of this abundance I have tried to furnish enough for the students needs, and to suggest to him how to increase his resources if he will. For students who wish for a full theoretical account of the science of perspective I know no treatise in English so good as Professor Wares Modern Perspective: I hope that this book will put the application of it into serviceable shape without injustice to its scientific side. In the discussions I have not undertaken to adhere to the rigorous forms of theoretical mathematics, to get on with the fewest possible postulates, but rather to assume as much as seemed safe of the common stock of knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.