If you pros have tips and tricks on how to improve next time, I’m glad to hear it. (Like, if you see that I have comited a sin)

  • LegoBrickOnFire@jlai.luOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I tested with the reflection of things on my cook-top while making pancakes (TMI) and the reflections were definetly shorter the more I looked from above. I believe it is because the things in the reflection are “further away” hence smaller. The reflection of my duck is definetly too small tho, I’ll be more carefull next time :D

    Thanks for the explanation it really helped wraping my head around the thing.

    • dgkf@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Oh! Awesome experiment! Yes, they’re shorter because of perspective (foreshortening). With a mirror surface it’s better to think of a duplicate of the object flipped across the mirror plane, then you can apply the same tricks to draw in perspective, which may make it look shorter.

      In your example here, since we’re viewing from the side the perspective is not going to factor in as much, so we land at “roughly the same size”