单词 | point of sight |
释义 | > as lemmaspoint of sight point of sight n. [after French point de vue (1651)] Art the point in space that represents the eye of the observer; (Perspective) the point from which straight lines are drawn to the object being delineated, their intersections with the plane of delineation forming the drawing. ΚΠ 1688 J. Glanvill tr. B. Le Bovier de Fontenelle Plurality of Worlds 78 She [sc. Nature] will not fail to vary the Prospect of the Universe, at every different point of Sight [Fr. point de veue]. 1731 W. Halfpenny Perspective made Easy 31 The Mitering of the under side of every Square..must be drawn from the Point of Sight. 1799 J. Wood Elements of Perspective i. 45 The Point of Sight is the point E, where the spectator's eye is placed, to look at the picture. 1860 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 450 The perspective..seems to be altogether faulty. There are at least half-a-dozen points of sight. 1881 Times 24 May 5/5 The point of sight in the picture is very high, and the spectator looks down upon a long perspective of houses. 1908 J. Meier-Graefe tr. F. Simmonds & G. W. Chrystal Mod. Art 181 Constable..had not the extraordinary lightness of touch,..nor the boldness of the point of sight, which Corot took very far down, to make the stony mass more effective. 1985 Nation (Nexis) 8 June 714 Delineating the tiniest flower in a wide landscape, of which, in nature, it would form, at their point of sight, but an uncertain speck of color. 2001 Crit. Matrix (Nexis) 13 26 With this ‘uncanny gaze’, she shows the subject to be decentered in relation to any originary point of sight. < as lemmas |
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