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Zeeman's Paradox


There is only one point in front of a perspective drawing where its three mutually perpendicular vanishing points appear in mutually perpendicular directions, but such a drawing nonetheless appears realistic from a variety of distances and angles.


See also

Leonardo's Paradox, Perspective, Vanishing Point

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References

Dixon, R. Mathographics. New York: Dover, p. 82, 1991.

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Zeeman's Paradox

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Zeeman's Paradox." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ZeemansParadox.html

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