vanishing point
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Ours pointed out fluffy booby hatchlings in the low branches of trees on one motu, and showed us up close the massive coconut crabs whose kind is coming back from the vanishing point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
The painting’s primary form is the big, top log that booms outward while its back end diminishes swiftly to a distant vanishing point.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 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
This zero-dimensional object, the vanishing point, is an infinitesimal dot on the canvas that represents a spot infinitely far away from the viewer.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
