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bird's-eye_view
📅 Updated:2020-04-09
🕒 Created:2013-05-14
🆔 ID:3795
Description
A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird.
The opposite is a worm's-eye view.
See also
- first_person_view
- foreshortening
- high-angle_view - When the viewpoint of the image is coming from a little higher than where the subject is, like you're standing taller than them.
- bird's-eye_view - When the viewpoint of the image is directly overhead of the subject, almost like you were flying over them.
- low-angle_view - Where the viewpoint is coming from a little lower than the subject, like you're looking slightly up at them.
- worm's-eye_view - Where the viewpoint is coming from directly underneath the subject, like you're standing straight underneath them or very close to that.
- perspective
