0 the point in a drawing or painting where parallel lines seem to meet at a distance --
1 the point in a drawing or painting where parallel lines seem to meet at a far distance --
The vanishing point of a group of converging elements is the final destination of a linear process, with a goal in an undefined horizon.
This undoubtedly reduced, sometimes to vanishing point, the meaning of scientific texts for the wider culture.
We have = 0 on the boundary as it shrinks, but must have 0 at the vanishing point at the instant of disappearance.
This is, in fact, a single point perspective with the vanishing point located at the centre of the image.
These modern translations fail to do justice to the original text, in which there is no allusion to a vanishing point or to linear perspective.
The hypothesis of a vanishing point at infinity was both unnecessary for the construction of perspective, and ultimately inconceivable as the reality of perception in everyday life.
The renaissance painter constructed the scene to be painted from an unchangeable, fixed point following the rules of the vanishing point perspective.
Vanishing point at the event horizon.