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The Invention of the Mirror, Part 4

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Is the Camera Obscura a Means of Enhancing the Creative Process of Painting?

I would imagine that the problem of drawing an image as reflected in a convex mirror has got to be really difficult. A because dono maybe we could hear from painters if i'm wrong about this, but my understanding of the way painting works is that it is difficult to just purely reproduce an image you're looking at as the eye sees it. But i would think those standard forms wouldn't really work for an image that's being distorted by a curved mirror. Yes. Now, if you want to hear more about the how mirrors a impacted te ld of of painting,. our episode on the camera obscura goes into that a little bit in the different ideas and hypotheses concerning the use

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