Jammer Wrote:
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> Actually,I still await an answer I believe
> deserves precedence...
>
> to wit;
>
> Please show some evidence the AE thought or
> planned ANYTHING in "aerial view" before
> spirographing aerial view layouts.
>
> As discussed elsewhere, there remains to be found
> any documentation of this.
>
> Please don't say "it's intuitive"... so is
> infrared film ONCE you understand radiant energy,
> and no one thinks the AE laid out heat energy
> patterns.
>
> Jammer

I still don't believe it's possible for anyone to not be able
to think in "aerial view". I, personally, used to have a lot
of trouble thinking in three dimensions and had to practice this
in order to mostly overcome it. But I could pick which dimensions,
Which perspectives, and what angles. I was merely mostly limited
to two at a time.

The Egyptians lived in a very one dimensional world where most
destinations were simply "upriver" or "downriver" rather than
at some location or altitude. They were certainly able to travel
out of sight of the river without getting lost. Looking down
into the valley wold have provided a three dimensional view of a
part of the world. And it would be an aerial view! It may well
have been this view which was the "land of the horizon" rather
than the "land of the cultivation under the cliffs". Anyone with
two eyes has a three dimensional world. Anyone with an imagination
can see from other perspectives.

Anyone who can design the pyramids had to think in three dimensions.
It is simply too common a talent to presume it was lacked by the
Egyptians.

Yes, their art is primitive and shows a very poor perspective but
does that mean future archeologists will believe we think our clocks
are melting and we see heads as twisted and groteque? Of course not.
This is merely style. Even if you don't know about art or think
about it parallel objects will appear to come together in the dis-
tance. If you draw them so they don't, then perhaps that is the true
realism.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.