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vanishing point

noun | van·ish·ing point | vaniSHiNG ˌpoint/

The point at which all orthogonal lines converge in a composition employing one-point perspective

Hieronymus Bosch Online

Bosch has a new website: boschproject.org Scholars are studying Bosch’s {weird and amazing} work in minute detail to understand and conserve it. The conservation is being supported by the Getty Foundation as part of its Panel Paintings Initiative. On the site you can explore hi-res views of the artwork alongside X-ray and infrared views.

Survey of Alternative Displays

Longform essay by Blair Neal presents the various types of unconventional display technologies:

An artist has a large range of ways they can display their work. Cave walls gave way to canvas and paper as ways to create portals into another human’s imagination. Stained glass windows were early versions of combining light and imagery. Electronic displays are our next continuation of this same concept. A photon is emitted; it travels until it reflects off of or passes through a medium. That photon then passes into your eyeball and excites some specialized cells — when enough of these cells are excited, your brain turns these into what you perceive as an image. 

However, standard computer monitors, LED video walls and projection screens offer only a small glimpse of the range of possible visual illusions. Any traditional display can be augmented or used in an unusual way. New displays and technologies are still being actively developed and researched. Some content is suited precisely to being shown on a standard display, like a webpage. Other content is better suited to a space that exists beyond the screen’s surface and enables a sort of suspension of disbelief that this thing is really there. We continue to find new ways to construct the image of new destinations within the eye.