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...
Da Vinci Notes #63 - Project Image in Every Direction Every body in light and shade fills the surrounding air with infinite images of itself; and these, by...
Da Vinci Notes #64 - Nobody's Image Can Interfere Your Own Image The body of the atmosphere is full of infinite radiating pyramids produced by the objects...
Da Vinci Notes #65 - Images Diminishing wih Distance PERSPECTIVE. The air is filled with endless images of the objects distributed in it; and all are...
Da Vinci Notes #66 - Images are Everywhere The images of objects are all diffused through the atmosphere which receives them; and all on every side in it. To...
Da Vinci Notes #67 - Whole and Parts General conclusions. All objects project their whole image and likeness, diffused and mingled in the whole of the...
Da Vinci Notes #68 - Seeing is a Passive Process That the contrary is impossible. It is impossible that the eye should project from itself, by visual rays, the...
Da Vinci Notes #69 - Image Travels Fast & Everywhere A parallel case. Just as a stone flung into the water becomes the centre and cause of many circles, and as...
Da Vinci Notes #70 - The Atmosphere Absorbs the Image If the object in front of the eye sends its image to the eye, the eye, on the other hand, sends its image...