Video of the Week #16, November 10th, 2011
From: The Cosmic Magnifying Lens by Davide Castelvecchi at Degrees of Freedom.
Original source: True Reverse Perspective from JMS on Vimeo. There is quite a lot of additional information there.
This animation by London-based video artist Jeremy Mooney-Somers represents the technique that artists have codified as reverse perspective, also known as Byzantine perspective. While in ordinary perspective lines converge to a point “at infinity,” in reverse perspective, sometimes seen in Byzantine icons, they converge to a point in front of the scene depicted. This work represents an excellent representation.
About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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