Perspective may refer to:
Vision and mathematics
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Perspectivity
In geometry and in its applications to drawing, a perspectivity is the formation of an image in a picture plane of a scene viewed from a fixed point.
Graphics
The science of graphical perspective uses perspectivities to make realistic images in ...
, the formation of an image in a picture plane of a scene viewed from a fixed point, and its modeling in geometry
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Perspective (graphical)
Linear or point-projection perspective (from la, perspicere 'to see through') is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection. Linear perspective is an approximate representation, ...
, representing the effects of visual perspective in graphic arts
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Aerial perspective
Aerial perspective, or atmospheric perspective, refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as viewed from a distance. As the distance between an object and a viewer increases, the contrast between the object and its b ...
, the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance
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Perspective distortion (photography)
In photography and cinematography, perspective distortion is a warping or transformation of an object and its surrounding area that differs significantly from what the object would look like with a normal focal length, due to the relative scale ...
, the way that viewing a picture from the wrong position gives a perceived distortion
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Perspective (geometry)
Two figures in a plane are perspective from a point ''O'', called the center of perspectivity if the lines joining corresponding points of the figures all meet at ''O''. Dually, the figures are said to be perspective from a line if the points o ...
, a relation between geometric figures
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Vue d'optique or perspective view, a genre of etching popular during the second half of the 18th century and into the 19th.
Entertainment
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''Perspective'' (P-Model album), 1982
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''Perspective'' (America album), 1984
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''Perspective'' (Jason Becker album), 1996
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''Perspective'' (Lawson album), 2016
* ''Perspective'', a 2010 album by
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a tempera ...
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Perspective (EP), an EP by Tesseract
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''Perspectives'' (album), the 2010 album by Australian band House Vs. Hurricane
* "Perspectives", a song from the album ''
Sea of Faces'' by Kutless
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Perspective Records
Perspective Records is an American record label, launched in 1991 by the producing team Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, through a joint venture with A&M Records—which Jam & Lewis had had a prosperous working relationship with throughout the 1980s, wit ...
, a record label
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''Perspective'' (film series), a 2012-2020 film series by B. P. Paquette
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Perspective (2019 film), an adult romance drama
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''Perspective'' (video game), a puzzle game
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''Perspectives'' (TV series), a British arts documentary series
Other
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Perspective (pharmacoeconomic), the vantage point from which a pharmacoeconomics analysis is conducted
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Point of view (literature)
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the ...
, the related experience of the narrator
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Point of view (philosophy)
In philosophy, a point of view is a specific attitude or manner through which a person thinks about something. This figurative usage of the expression dates back to 1760.
In this meaning, the usage is synonymous with one of the meanings of the t ...
, in philosophy and psychology, the context for opinions, beliefs and experiences
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Perspectives on Political Science'', peer-reviewed academic journal
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The Perspective, a news and history website
See also
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Perspecta
Perspecta was a directional motion picture sound system, invented by the laboratories at Fine Sound Inc. in 1954. The company was founded by Mercury Records engineer C. Robert (Bob) Fine, husband of producer Wilma Cozart Fine. As opposed to magne ...
, a motion picture sound system
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Perspectivism
Perspectivism (german: Perspektivismus; also called perspectivalism) is the epistemological principle that perception of and knowledge of something are always bound to the interpretive perspectives of those observing it. While perspectivism reg ...
, in philosophy
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Point of view (disambiguation)
Point of view or Points of View may refer to:
Concept and technique
* Point of view (philosophy), an attitude how one sees or thinks of something
* Point of view (literature) or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; the pronou ...
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