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True grid
pp. 14-27
Abstrakt
The Renaissance architect, moral philosopher, cryptographer, mathematician, Papal adviser, painter, city planner and land surveyor Leon Battista Alberti provided the theoretical foundations of modern perspective geometry. Alberti's work on perspective exerted a powerful influence on painters of the stature of Albrecht Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci and Piero della Francesca. But his Della pittura of 1435-36 contains also a hitherto unrecognized ontology of pictorial projection. We sketch this ontology, and show how it can be generalized to apply to represantive devices in general, including maps and spatial and non-spatial databases.
Publication details
Published in:
Montello Daniel D (2001) Spatial information theory: foundations of geographic information science international conference, cosit 2001 morro bay, ca, usa, september 19–23, 2001 proceedings. Dordrecht, Springer.
Seiten: 14-27
Referenz:
Smith Barry (2001) „True grid“, In: D.D. Montello (ed.), Spatial information theory, Dordrecht, Springer, 14–27.