Uploaded July 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Some people seem to have different ideas about exactly how perspective works. I'll undertake a quick experiment to determine what we really see. This will be an empirical examination of perspective in an attempt to measure the distance to the vanishing point. (I hope to describe the mathematical approach to this in a later video.
jump ahead:
@0:00 Videos showing the sun going past the vanishing point
@2:19 Setting up an experiment to find the distance to vanishing point
@3:10 Raw data
@3:36 Graphing the data
@4:48 What is this curve?
@5:56 Compare the raw data vs inverse curve
@7:11 Calculation of the distance to vanishing point!
@7:52 Additional data submitted by a volunteer
@8:53 Applying what we learned to the original videos
original content:
youtube.com/watch?v=5Pzf-UpsTUc&t=306s
youtu.be/fXcL48pGGn0?t=243
Some people seem to have different ideas about exactly how perspective works. I'll undertake a quick experiment to determine what we really see. This will be an empirical examination of perspective in an attempt to measure the distance to the vanishing point. (I hope to describe the mathematical approach to this in a later video.
jump ahead:
@0:00 Videos showing the sun going past the vanishing point
@2:19 Setting up an experiment to find the distance to vanishing point
@3:10 Raw data
@3:36 Graphing the data
@4:48 What is this curve?
@5:56 Compare the raw data vs inverse curve
@7:11 Calculation of the distance to vanishing point!
@7:52 Additional data submitted by a volunteer
@8:53 Applying what we learned to the original videos
original content:
youtube.com/watch?v=5Pzf-UpsTUc&t=306s
youtu.be/fXcL48pGGn0?t=243
