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Some combine European vanishing-point perspective already known to Mughal court painters in Delhi with a succession of receding terraces, while others like Mihr Chand create lovely combinations.
Where East Met West To Wondrous Effect Lee Lawrence 2011
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I really appreciate someone using the mathemathical 3D instead of vanishing-point 3D perspective.
U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight on Vimeo 2010
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As a direct result of the Arab advance, by the seventh and eighth centuries, Christendom, the area within which Christianity was the dominant religion, diminished almost to vanishing-point.
OPEN THREAD 2009
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Beyond the sea-wall there curves for miles in a vast and regular sweep the barren beach of shingle, with the village of Brenzett standing out darkly across the water, a spire in a clump of trees; and still further out the perpendicular column of a lighthouse, looking in the distance no bigger than a lead pencil, marks the vanishing-point of the land.
Amy Foster 2006
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That which is the foreground and measuring base of one perspective draught may be the vanishing-point of another perspective draught, while yet they are both draughts of the same thing.
Two on a Tower 2006
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While some shrink from observation, others, though themselves obscure to the vanishing-point, seem to be endowed with a vicious yearning for notoriety.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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The snowscape was bluish-white under the three-quarter moon and the stars were huge; the line of telegraph poles alongside the railway cut the dome of night in half, their stark outlines diminishing to a vanishing-point where the squat black rectangle of the signal-box made a blot against the snow.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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There are conceivable circumstances where it may be medically prescribed, but such prescription from competent men has well-nigh reached the vanishing-point.
Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd
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There will be accidents in learning to fly, there will be accidents of foolhardiness and of collision or in landing, but they will decrease to the vanishing-point as experience grows.
Opportunities in Aviation Gordon Lamont
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All day they would toil over the infinitude of prairie, the sun that hid nightly behind that maddeningly elusive vanishing-point, the horizon, their only guide.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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