Practice question · Estimate
Atmospheric perspective and linear perspective both create depth. Roughly what share of the depth effect in a typical landscape comes from atmospheric perspective?
Estimate on a scale from 0% (0) to 100% (100).
Hints
- Consider a landscape with few straight receding lines.
- Most of it, the geometry does less than people assume.
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70 (answers within ±20 count)
Why
Most of it. The figure is a rough judgement rather than a measurement, and the point is the direction: distant things paler, bluer and less distinct does far more of the work than converging lines, and it was in use long before the geometry existed.
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