vanishing point

Examples

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• The corridor narrowed to a vanishing point ahead of them.

  Fiction book (1994)

• First, every great narrative history proceeds from some ruling idea, a controlling center which, like the vanishing point of perspective drawing, pulls everything in the picture into finite relationship with everything else.

  Academic text (1993)

• What happens to that figure beyond that vanishing point, inside the cave?

  Academic text (1994)

• And so often the vanishing points will be outside the frame that we've actually captured an image of.

• Above us, a tracery of green and yellow leaves arrowed to a vanishing point we could never reach.

  Fiction book (1994)

• There wasn't a horizon; just a vanishing point where things on my current scale became too distant to resolve anymore.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Most of the court paintings employing European perspective have multiple vanishing points beyond the painting frame, either to the upper right or left side or on both sides.

  Academic text (2014)

• Occasionally, on a rare spring morning or exceptional summer dusk, the fields stretch to a vanishing point so distant that Alvin can see for himself that the world is round.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "Nine minutes thirty-seven seconds." "Our scheduled approach will take us to the vanishing point in slightly over eight minutes, and there's no reason to change it if DeKoven doesn't interfere."

  Fiction book (1991)

• Prospective recognition, with its connotations of perspectival arrangement (prospettiva), can instantiate order only by reference to a unique vanishing point.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

V

vertex

vsvanishing point

• Specialized

2 6.8

A point where two or more lines meet, for example a triangle corner

appears to be where parallel lines meet at distance in a picture

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