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Foreshortening
To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
📖 Definitions of "Foreshortening"
verb
- 1
To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
verb
- 1
To abridge, reduce, contract.
- 2
To make shorter.
noun
- 1
A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.
- 2
A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.
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