MathXplosion

Vanishing Into the Sunset

Did you know some things look further away, almost as if vanishing, than others on a flat surface? It's an illusion called the vanishing point. It's not magic... it's math! The Educational Gist: This episode is about one of the techniques used by painters: perspective. Perspective is the art of drawing objects in such a way so as to give them depth and show their distance from the observer. This gives a drawing the illusion of three-dimensional space as well as representational accuracy.