A new understanding of what perspective is, how it operates, and why it matters across the visual arts, sciences and technologies.
The Past, Present and Future of Visual and Optical Perspective traces, re-examines and extends the field of perspective from antiquity to the digital age, revealing how its processes and purposes shape human vision, spatial understanding, image-making and the representation of reality.
Moving across art, science, optics, geometry, architecture, photography, cinema, computer graphics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, the book examines both natural perspective — how spatial reality appears to vision — and artificial perspective — how it is captured, projected, constructed and reproduced through images, instruments and media.
Through a new Perspective Category Theory, the book moves beyond traditional linear perspective to provide a systematic framework for understanding complex visual and optical phenomena and the connections between perspective, art and science.
The book explores:
• the historical development of perspective
• the relationship between vision, imaging and representation
• natural and artificial forms of perspective
• perspective across traditional and digital media
• present applications and future possibilities
• the wider role of perspective in art, science and technology
Written for artists, architects, photographers, filmmakers, designers, engineers, researchers, students and digital creators, this major interdisciplinary study illuminates the historical development, present applications and future possibilities of visual and optical perspective.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A new understanding of what perspective is, how it operates, and why it matters across the visual arts, sciences and technologies.The Past, Present and Future of Visual and Optical Perspective traces, re-examines and extends the field of perspective from antiquity to the digital age, revealing how its processes and purposes shape human vision, spatial understanding, image-making and the representation of reality.Moving across art, science, optics, geometry, architecture, photography, cinema, computer graphics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, the book examines both natural perspective - how spatial reality appears to vision - and artificial perspective - how it is captured, projected, constructed and reproduced through images, instruments and media.Through a new Perspective Category Theory, the book moves beyond traditional linear perspective to provide a systematic framework for understanding complex visual and optical phenomena and the connections between perspective, art and science.The book explores: - the historical development of perspective- the relationship between vision, imaging and representation- natural and artificial forms of perspective- perspective across traditional and digital media- present applications and future possibilities- the wider role of perspective in art, science and technologyWritten for artists, architects, photographers, filmmakers, designers, engineers, researchers, students and digital creators, this major interdisciplinary study illuminates the historical development, present applications and future possibilities of visual and optical perspective. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798316834426
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Perspective is far more than a drawing technique. It is one of the fundamental ways in which human beings understand space, vision, images, representation, and reality.This Colour Edition of The Past, Present and Future of Visual and Optical Perspective presents a wide-ranging study of perspective from its historical foundations to its modern and future applications. Moving beyond the conventional account of linear perspective, Alan Stuart Radley explores perspective as a broad visual, optical, artistic, scientific, and technological field.This book examines how perspective operates across art, geometry, optics, visual perception, photography, cinema, illusion, virtual reality, imaging systems, and emerging technologies. It shows how the principles of perspective are not confined to Renaissance art, but recur across many disciplines wherever space is represented, interpreted, projected, measured, distorted, or transformed.The colour edition includes visual material, diagrams, and illustrations presented in full colour, making it especially suitable for readers who want to follow the visual distinctions, examples, and conceptual relationships in the clearest possible form.The book is intended for artists, designers, architects, photographers, researchers, historians of art and science, students of visual culture, and anyone interested in the deeper structure of spatial representation.At its core, this work argues that perspective should be understood as a larger science of visual and optical space: a field connecting past traditions, present technologies, and future forms of image-making. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798316834426
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