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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. [1]
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Pictorial maps (also known as illustrated maps, panoramic maps, perspective maps, bird's-eye view maps, and geopictorial maps) depict a given territory with a more artistic rather than technical style. [1] It is a type of map in contrast to road map, atlas, or topographic map. The cartography can be a sophisticated 3-D perspective landscape or ...
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.
Aerial perspective, or atmospheric perspective, refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as viewed from a distance. As the distance between an object and a viewer increases, the contrast between the object and its background decreases, and the contrast of any markings or details within the object also decreases.
English: Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 881.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2
Central Falls (R.I.) · Aerial Views · Central Falls · Rhode Island · United States · Pawtucket (R.I.) · Pawtucket Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
English: Perspective map not drawn to scale. Includes text and index to points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 33 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1; 710/1