How Eyesight Differs from Perspective
Comments about Eyesight by a Perspective Theorist

The Pantheon in Rome-- painted by Giovanni Paolo Panini


"HOW EYESIGHTS DIFFERS FROM PERSPECTIVE:
Comments about Eyesight by a Perspective Theorist"

      a Digital eBook, complete in 9 parts -- by Jim Barnes, architect -- first version, November 2019


INTRO:   Opening remarks, Table of Contents, and definition of "Perspective"
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "A"
  (21 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~8.2 MBytes)
                            Introduction of the contradiction of Perspective being, and not being, an exact simulation of human eyesight.
PART 1:   Where angles between Sight Lines appear unchanged
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "B"   (44 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~12.0 MBytes)
                            Including discussion about image flipping, focus, binocular vision, motion, detail reduction, and wide-angle vision
PART 2:   Where angles between Sight Lines appear to be changed
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "C"   (22 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~4.0 MBytes)
                            Including discussion about "zoom" (size), height, distortions, and "rotation"
PART 3:   Where Sight Lines appear only in our mind
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "D"   (26 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~4.6 MBytes)
                            Including discussion about pattern recognition, the blind-spot, idealization, dreams and visions, and imagination
CLOSING:   Conclusions
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "E"   (20 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~2.4 MBytes)
                            Including discussion about four solutions to our initial contradcition, and predictions about the future of Perspective
APPENDIX 1:   A Confusion of Similarities
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "F"   (6 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~1.6 MBytes)
                            Discussion about confusing the perceptual psycology of wide-angle eyesight with Perspective views of non-euclidean geometries
APPENDIX 2:   Seeing the Curve of the Earth's Horizon
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "G"   (8 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~1.0 MBytes)
                            How the human eye is able to see the curvature of the Earth from a high elevation above a large expanse of water
APPENDIX 3:   The Pantheon
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "H"   (10 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~3.2 MBytes)
                            Discussion about when a painting can appear more realistic than any photograph -- the depiction of wide-angle views
APPENDIX 4:   The Arch of Titus
                  "Click" for:  DOWNLOAD "I"   (16 pages, formatted as a single .PDF file, ~2.4 MBytes)
                            Discussion about how the human imagination provides us with an "inner vision"

Printing:  These PDFs are intended for printing on Tabloid-size (11"x17") sheets of paper.

Posted: 24th November 2019, revised 3rd March 2020