axonometric projection
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thumb|Cavalier projection of a semicircular archway.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Principle of axonometry
- The choice of the images of the axes and the foreshortenings
- Special axonometries
- Engineer projection
- Cavalier perspective, cabinet perspective
- Birds eye view, military projection
- Isometric axonometry
- Circles in axonometry
- Spheres in axonometry
- Coordinate calculation
- Examples
- References
- External links
thumb|Cavalier projection of a semicircular archway.
Axonometry is a graphical procedure belonging to descriptive geometry that generates a planar image of a three-dimensional object. The term "axonometry" means "to measure along axes", and indicates that the dimensions and scaling of the coordinate axes play a crucial role. The result of an axonometric procedure is a uniformly-scaled parallel projection of the object. In general, the resulting parallel projection is oblique (the rays are not perpendicular to the image plane); but in special cases the result is orthographic (the rays are perpendicular to the image plane), which in this context is called an orthogonal axonometry.
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