Jonathan Lansey
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Description:2002
This is a scale point projection onto a plane, of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
It is on a checkerboard so you can tell that its actually leaning towards you.
Motivation:
I had this really boring English class, I took drawing it on as a challenge.
Some neat things about the picture that I want to tell you about/ things to
notice in the picture:
One of the cooler things about this drawing, although some people aren’t able to
notice it, the tower is in fact leaning towards you relative to a horizontal,
flat, ground (the leaning is not to scale, I quadrupled it so it would be
easier to notice. Without the checkerboard, this effect would not have
been possible.
Notice the shadows of the columns, see how they bend and figure out why,
A challenge to anyone who thinks they know perspective: what is the small circle
in the middle of the tower for? what went into placing that little circle so
scale would be correct, scale was the hardest part of the whole thing. hint: the little
dot below the circle represents an eye, same thing with the one on the far
right. another needed hint: i had an extension piece of paper above the tower to
make a larger surface, this was needed.
extra credit: how did i place that circle
Shadow:
find the vanishing point of the ground.
take a look at the buildings shadow
since the suns rays hit the earth parallel, the edges of the shadow of the
building make two parallel lines on the ground,
find the vanishing point of those two lines,
it is along a horizontal line to the left of the grounds vanishing point.
this is because the shadow is on the same PLANE as the ground
parallel lines have a vanishing POINT,
a plane has a vanishing LINE
therefore since the shadow lies completely flat on the ground its vanishing
point is on that line.
this was so much fun to figure out, you have no idea.
The Places I Estimated (some on purpose, some not)
at the tip of the shadow, the length of the thinner tip part is approximated.
(the length of the whole shadow is OKAY because the sun could be anywhere.)
the curve at the top of the shadow is approximated
I didn’t draw the very tip of the top of tower
I drew the inner circles that are on the roof, in free-hand (the outer circle
was mostly calculated)
The curve of the bottom of the bells, was guessed (mistake) I did not
think about the fact that even when the tower leans, the bells hang straight
down.
And again, the actual lean of the tower is less then 5
degrees, I exaggerated its lean to about 20 degrees.
General Notes
Not including the neat lines on the bottom left, every single line in the right
picture has a distinct purpose. I did not draw any just to make it look
confusing or to look cool.
there is only 1 vertical line in both these pictures
I could not find a single picture from above the tower, they were all from below.
I had no idea whatsoever what to draw on the roof! so, I just made it up!
Materials: (I'm big on doing a lot with a little)
i used the pointy metal and a lead pencil to make the
compass, how I did it:
the concept is this:
two holes in a thin
piece of paper,
make one hole sit still (by putting the pencil in it) while drawing
around it through the other hole (with a piece of lead)
to make the holes i used the pointy bit
i took a piece of lead out of the pencil
it drew a circle with a radius
of: the distance between the two holes.
the radius was very important for the scale to be correct.
To View Correctly:
chances are, the way your looking at it right now, it will not have correct
perspective.
if you want it to look REALLY 3D (and really feel like your
hovering above the leaning tower), then then do this:
Description:2002
A warped reflection of a bus in a store window.
Motivation:
The same really boring English class coupled with a long bus ride to school
Analysis: Bigger Photo
This is really the way things look when they are reflected in windows.
Windows are never perfect, big ones especially.
To draw it, I first drew a bus onto a grid (below). Then I drew a warped grid onto the windows, then copy-warped the bus square by square onto the warped grid.
Copyright, © Jonathan Lansey 2004, jcl7_QQ@njit.edu (Remove the underscore & QQ) Last modified: 03/17/2005