AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -linear perspective, a system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines (orthogonals) in a painting or drawing using this system converge in a single vanishing point on the composition’s horizon line.

Detailed explanation-2: -Linear perspective in psychology is defined as a type of depth prompt that the human eye perceives when viewing two parallel lines that appear to meet at a distance. For instance, when a long stretch of highway is seen by the human eye, the lanes seem to join together on the horizon.

Detailed explanation-3: -A vanishing point is a point on the image plane of a perspective rendering where the two-dimensional perspective projections of mutually parallel lines in three-dimensional space appear to converge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Basic Perspective: Converging Lines The edges of objects appear to converge or taper as they recede in the distance to a common point on the eye level or horizon line. In Linear Perspective this is referred to as a Vanishing Point.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are two types of perspective that artists use when painting and drawing. Aerial perspective is one and is described as the use of gradations in color and definition to suggest distance. The other, linear perspective, is what we call the use of parallel lines converging on the horizon to convey depth.