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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.
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.
| Module code and title: | M203, Introduction to pure mathematics |
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| 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 |
