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Viewing frustum. v. t. e. A bird's-eye viewis an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspectiveas if the observer were a birdin 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.
The Batak sub-ethnics ( Toba, Karo, Pakpak, Mandailing) dancing Tor-tor or Manortor in Kesawan, Medan, 2021. Batak societies are patriarchally organized along clans known as Marga. A traditional belief among the Toba Batak is that they originate from one ancestor "Si Raja Batak", with all Margas descended from him.
Batak people (Philippines) The Batak are one of about 140 indigenous peoples of the Philippines. They are located in the northeastern portions of Palawan, a relatively large island in the southwest of the archipelago. Since ancient times, the Batak have inhabited a series of river valleys along the coastline of what is today Puerto Princesa City.
Hatsusaburō Yoshida. Hatsusaburō Yoshida (吉田 初三郎, Yoshida Hatsusaburō, March 4, 1884–August 16, 1955) was a Japanese cartographer and artist, known by his bird's-eye view maps of cities and towns. Known as the " Hiroshige of the Taisho Era ," [1] Yoshida created over 3,000 maps in his lifetime.
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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 the Nuremberg ...
The earliest depictions of aerial landscapes are maps, or somewhat map-like artworks, which show a landscape from an imagined bird's-eye viewpoint. For example, Australian Aborigines, beginning in very ancient times, created "country" landscapes—aerial landscapes depicting their country—showing ancestral paths to watering holes and sacred ...
5 April 1969. ( 1969-04-05) –. 26 December 1971. ( 1971-12-26) Bird's Eye View is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1969 and 1971, initially transmitted on BBC2. It was edited by Edward Mirzoeff, and was filmed entirely from a helicopter. An initial Bird's Eye View of Great Britain was shown on Christmas Eve 1967 and ...