Peter Coppin | Visual explanations / "Total view" perspective drawings








Sculptural gun  [1994]

The goal driving the development of this drawing was to create a curvilinear perspective system for the presentation of representational ideas from the mind more "immersively" on two-dimensional surfaces by showing "fisheye" style 180 degree fields of view.





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Nancy climbs the stairs

Nancy climbs the stairs [1993].

Nancy climbs the stairs was another creation designed to present a situation more "immersively" through a wide angle curvilinear perspective.

The highly distorted picture shows a woman ["Nancy"] climbing stairs and heading toward a hallway. However, through the use of curvilinear perspective, the picture is able to show all of the objects surrounding Nancy.

For example, the wall that ends at the edge of the drawing on the right edge of the paper would "wrap around" to connect with the wall ending on the left edge of the paper.

The curvilinear grid [bottom] was used to produce the correct distortions in the drawing [top].
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