From Perspective Drawing to the Eighth Dimension

John Stillwell ()
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John Stillwell: University of San Francisco

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Art of Science, 2014, pp 5-23 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Arnolfini Portrait van Eyck, Jan Arnolfini Portrait (Fig. 1.1), by Jan van Eyck (1434), is an acclaimed example of the new realism in Flemish painting Painting in the early fifteenth century. It seems to be an accurate depiction of a three-dimensional Space three-dimensional space and of three-dimensional objects. However, van Eyck’s treatment of perspective Perspective is not mathematically correct.

Keywords: Projective Plane; Projective Geometry; Tiled Floor; Real Projective Plane; Hypercomplex Number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02111-9_1

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