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This programme investigates how three-dimensional panoramas can be represented on a two dimensional canvas. The programme goes on to look at projective geometry, the branch of geometry that tackles... the issues of perspective.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: M203, Introduction to pure mathematics
Item code: M203; 04E; 1995
First transmission date: 1995
Published: 1995
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Duration: 00:24:04
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Producer: Anne Marie Gallen
Contributors: June Barrow-Green; Jeremy Gray
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Affine; Ames Chair; Concurrence; 'Der Zeichner mit der laute'; Desargues theorem; Kaleidoscope; Optical tricks; Perspectivity; Projective geometry; Stenope Room
Subject terms: Continuous geometries; Geometry, Projective; Perspective; Projective planes
Footage description: This programme deals with the mathematics behind the artist's representation of perspective. It begins by looking at a number of optical tricks that can be played on the eye by taking advantage of perspective. It then moves on to explain perspectivity through projective geometry - the geometry that deals with projective transformations. Finally, the mathematics of Desargues Theorem is demonstrated and we find that it is just a series of perspectivities. The main purpose of the programme is to illustrate the nature of perspective and to help the students visualise the link between perspective and projective geometry.
Master spool number: DOU7914
Production number: FOUM451E
Videofinder number: 4836
Available to public: no