http://library.open.ac.uk/lrctranscripts/M203_4E.pdf
produced by Anne Marie Gallen; contributors June Barrow-Green, Jeremy Gray.
This programme deals with the mathematics behind the artist's representation of perspective. It begins by looking at a number of optical tricks that can be played on the eye by taking advantage of perspective. It then moves on to explain perspectivity through projective geometry - the geometry that deals with projective transformations. Finally, the mathematics of Desargues Theorem is demonstrated and we find that it is just a series of perspectivities. The main purpose of the programme is to illustrate the nature of perspective and to help the students visualise the link between perspective and projective geometry.
Perspectives
This programme investigates how three-dimensional panoramas can be represented on a two dimensional canvas. The programme goes on to look at projective geometry, the branch of geometry that tackles the issues of perspective.
Perspectives