TY - GEN
T1 - True grid
AU - Smith, Barry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The Renaissance architect, moral philosopher, cryptographer, mathematician, Papal adviser, painter, city planner and land surveyor Leon Battista Alberti pmided the theoretical foundations of modem perspective geometry. Alberti's work on perspective exerted a powerful influence on painters of the stature of Albrecht Diirer, Leonardo da Vinci and Piero della Francesca. But his Dellapittura 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 representative devices in general, including maps and spatial and non-spatial databases.
AB - The Renaissance architect, moral philosopher, cryptographer, mathematician, Papal adviser, painter, city planner and land surveyor Leon Battista Alberti pmided the theoretical foundations of modem perspective geometry. Alberti's work on perspective exerted a powerful influence on painters of the stature of Albrecht Diirer, Leonardo da Vinci and Piero della Francesca. But his Dellapittura 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 representative devices in general, including maps and spatial and non-spatial databases.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84937562329
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45424-1_2
DO - 10.1007/3-540-45424-1_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84937562329
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 14
EP - 27
BT - Spatial Information Theory
A2 - Montello, Daniel R.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 5th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2001
Y2 - 19 September 2001 through 23 September 2001
ER -