Da Vinci Notes #33 - Perception on New Discoveries When the eye, coming out of darkness suddenly sees a luminous body, it will appear much larger at first...
Da Vinci Notes #34 - First Perception can be Wrong Why when the eye has just seen the light, does the half light look dark to it, and in the same way if it...
Da Vinci Notes #35 - Things Do Not Change, We Change ON PAINTING. If the eye, when [out of doors] in the luminous atmosphere, sees a place in shadow, this will...
Da Vinci Notes #36 - Build In Buffer Time ON PERSPECTIVE. The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted...
Da Vinci Notes #37 - Light up What You Want to See Experiment [showing] the dilatation and contraction of the pupil, from the motion of the sun and other...
Da Vinci Notes #38 - Absolute & Relative Measurements The pupil of the eye, in the open air, changes in size with every degree of motion from the sun; and at...
Da Vinci Notes #39 - Bias The eye which sees all objects reversed retains the images for some time. This conclusion is proved by the results; because, the eye...
Da Vinci Notes #40 - Information, Inspirations and Insights ON PAINTING. Perspective is the best guide to the art of Painting. Keiths Ideas: 1. Perspective is...
Da Vinci Notes #41 - Seeing Things Differently The art of perspective is of such a nature as to make what is flat appear in relief and what is in relief flat. ...
The elements of perspective--Of the Point (42-46) Da Vinci Notes #42 - Analyzing Through Perspective All the problems of perspective are made clear by the five...
Da Vinci Notes #43 - No Isolated Issue A point is not part of a line. Keith's Ideas: 1. When points joined to form line, they are no more points! They are...
Da Vinci Notes #44 - A Point is Not a Stop OF THE NATURAL POINT. The smallest natural point is larger than all mathematical points, and this is proved because...
Da Vinci Notes #45 - Your Surface Limits You 1, The superficies is a limitation of the body. 2, and the limitation of a body is no part of that body. 3, and...
Da Vinci Notes #46 - Something Has No Form, Has No Limitation The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies no space is nothing. The...
Of the line (47-48). Da Vinci Notes #47 - Opportunity DEFINITION OF THE NATURE OF THE LINE. The line has in itself neither matter nor substance and may rather ...
Da Vinci Notes #48 - An Outline is Not the Thing and/or the Person OF DRAWING OUTLINE. Consider with the greatest care the form of the outlines of every ...
Da Vinci Notes #49 - Don't Surround Yourself with Boundary The nature of the outline. The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things. The proposition is...
Da Vinci Notes #50 - Perspective Perspective is a rational demonstration by which experience confirms that every object sends its image to the eye by a pyramid...
Da Vinci Notes #51 - Seeing One Thing at a Time IN WHAT WAY THE EYE SEES OBJECTS PLACED IN FRONT OF IT. The perception of the object depends on the direction...
Da Vinci Notes #52 - Focus Perspective is a rational demonstration, confirmed by experience, that all objects transmit their image to the eye by a pyramid of ...
Da Vinci Notes 53 - Eye Can Never Be a True Judge PERSPECTIVE. Perspective comes in where judgment fails [as to the distance] in objects which diminish. The...
Da Vinci Notes 54 - Proof & Evidence TO PROVE HOW OBJECTS REACH THE EYE. If you look at the sun or some other luminous body and then shut your eyes you will...
Da Vinci Notes #55 - It is OK to Have No Idea! ELEMENTS OF PERSPECTIVE. All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids, and the nearer to the eye...
Da Vinci Notes #56 - Go There to See the Truth There are only bases without pyramids which constantly diminish up to this point. And from the first base where...
Da Vinci Notes #57 - Find Something Outside to Prove How to measure the pyramid of vision. As regards the point in the eye; it is made more intelligible by ...
Da Vinci Notes #58 - It is NOT We are Seeing Things The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are...
Da Vinci Notes #59 - Olluminated Atmosphere The whole surface of opaque bodies displays its whole image in all the illuminated atmosphere which surrounds them...
Da Vinci Notes #60 - Atmosphere Reflecting What's Inside It That the atmosphere attracts to itself, like a loadstone, all the images of the objects that exist...
Da Vinci Notes #61 - We Reflect our Image to Our Surrounding All bodies together, and each by itself, give off to the surrounding air an infinite number of...
Da Vinci Notes #62 - Projecting Image at All Angles Every point is the termination of an infinite number of lines, which diverge to form a base, and...