A station point is a

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or vantage point from which an

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or exhibitor intends an

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to experience an

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work. In

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, the station point is the location of the

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at the point in time when the camera records a view to a

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. In traditional

graphical perspective Linear or point-projection perspective () is one of two types of 3D projection, graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection. Linear perspective is an approximate representation, generally on a fla ...

, oculus (abbreviated ''O'') denotes the point

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(2007) ''Geometry of an Art'', p. xxix, Springer, in

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where a viewer sees a scene to be portrayed on a

picture plane In painting, photography, graphical perspective and descriptive geometry, a picture plane is an image plane located between the "eye point" (or '' oculus'') and the object being viewed and is usually coextensive to the material surface of the w ...

. When depiction of a scene is taken over by a camera with

, the "eye point" or oculus becomes the station point.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Station Point Visual arts exhibitions Perspective projection

See also

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