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Viewing frustum. v. t. e. A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward. Bird's-eye views can be an aerial photograph, but also a drawing, and are often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps.
Modernist abstraction and the aerial landscape. The artist Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935), who wrote extensively on the aesthetics and philosophy of modern art, identified the aerial landscape (especially the "bird's-eye view", looking straight down, as opposed to an oblique angle) as a genuinely new and radicalizing paradigm in the art of the twentieth century.
An aerial view of the city of Pori, Finland. Air photo of a military target used to evaluate the effect of bombing. Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other airborne platforms. [1] When taking motion pictures, it is also known as aerial videography .
Californian artist Jayson Fann has created human-sized bird's nests that allow humans to sleep and live Bird's-Eye View: Artist Jayson Fann's Human-Sized Bird's Nests -- for People Skip to main ...
Earthflight is a British nature documentary that shows a flight from the view of the wings of birds across six continents, showing some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view. [1] The BBC series was created by John Downer and narrated by David Tennant and consisted of six 60-minute episodes.
An orthographic projection map is a map projection of cartography. Like the stereographic projection and gnomonic projection, orthographic projection is a perspective (or azimuthal) projection, in which the sphere is projected onto a tangent plane or secant plane. The point of perspective for the orthographic projection is at infinite distance.
Some of these many camera angles are the high-angle shot, low-angle shot, bird's-eye view, and worm's-eye view. A viewpoint is the apparent distance and angle from which the camera views and records the subject. They also include the eye-level shot, over-the-shoulder shot, and point-of-view shot. A high-angle (HA) shot is a shot in which the ...
View of Venice. View of Venice, also known as the de' Barbari Map, is a monumental woodcut print showing a bird's-eye view of the city of Venice from the southwest. It bears the title and date "VENETIE MD" ("Venice 1500"). It was printed from six wooden blocks designed from 1498 to 1500 by Jacopo de' Barbari, and then published in late 1500 by ...