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Two essays regarding ancient Greco-Roman perspective systems
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How two modern studies of ancient Pompeian murals point us to the long-lost Greek theater perspective system cited by Vitruvius, and how the modern Glide Projection system corresponds to perspective geometries of later Pompeian styles. Essay #2: "The non-euclidean OPTICS of Euclid" ("Click" on title to view text -- 1 page) An hypothesis that the ancient Optics of Euclid (c. 300 B.C.) described both euclidean and non-eculidean visualizations -- a primal pan-geometry from which the author extracts the premier euclidean form. |
