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the trick where your thumb deletes the moon and your problems shrink to scale
means A particular way of seeing or understanding something, shaped by where you stand — literally or mentally; also the technique that makes flat pictures appear to have depth.
from From Latin perspicere, "to see through, look closely," built from per- ("through") and specere ("to look"). It arrived in English through medieval optics, where perspectiva was the science of vision and lenses, before Renaissance painters borrowed it for the geometry of depth on a flat canvas — and only later did it drift into the figurative "point of view."
- art history
- Linear perspective wasn't formalized until the 1400s Renaissance
- brain hack
- Your eyes have a blind spot you never notice
- forced perspective
- Makes Hobbits look small next to normal actors
- overview effect
- Astronauts report Earth-seeing reshapes their entire worldview
- parallax
- Distance is measured by how stars shift as you move
cubism's multiple perspectives — pablo picasso and georges braque showed objects from simultaneous viewpoints in early 1900s paris, fragmenting traditional viewpoint