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Getting the perspectives correct in a drawing is a skill worth having, whether you use
AutoCAD or a quill-pen. The drawings presented here are by G.M.Norden in 1953.
His skill enables the diagrams to speak for themselves.

CONTENTS-
The Vanishing Trick
The Horizon or Eye Level
How Pictures are Formed
Using the Eye
The Cone of Vision
The Eye`s Position
Measuring into the Distance
Curves
Sloping Planes
Simplifying
Reflections
Shadows

APPENDIXES-
Measuring into the Distance
Planes
Freakish Views

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