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
Ireland highlighted the motel’s twin-bedded geometries and flat veranda stretching to an arid vanishing point.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
“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
Similarly, in Masaccio’s Tribute Money the vanishing point lies behind Christ’s head.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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