Perspective (visual)

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Perspective when used in the context of vision and visual perception refers to the way in which objects appear to the eye based on their spatial attributes or dimension and the position of the eye relative to the objects. For example, the parallel lines of a railway track are perceived by the eye of a standing human being as meeting at a distant point at the horizon. A person standing at the corner of a building at ground level sees each of the walls recede to an imaginary point on the horizon. The horizon level itself is determined by the eye level and is at the eye level. The eyelevel determines what a person is able to see and what not. A person standing on the seashore sees the horizon with a lesser amount of sea visible than a person standing on top of a multistoreyed building. There could be numerous examples to support this scientific phenomenon.

Perspective as graphic representation uses intuitive/ artistic or scientific/ technical skills to represent this phenomenon of visual perception. (See Perspective (graphical))