Perspective
Without a good understanding of perspective, you’ll end up thinking you’re on a spinning space ball.
For anyone that thinks they SHOULD be able to see Mt. Everest from ANYWHERE on the flat map, you NEED to educate yourself on this matter.
Perspective and atmospherics are what will influence the image you see from point A to point B.
Objects will appear to become smaller and lower as they move away from our vision. This is due to the law of perspective.
Ask any art student. They know how perspective works.
When drawing a city, you would make the buildings further away smaller.
Objects will intersect at the vanishing point.
Here’s a good video on perspective regarding the stars.
You can start it at 12:40 to get right to it
Why Objects Disappear Bottom-Up – Angular Resolution
More on Angular Resolution
Lake Pontchartrain
Seeing imaginary curvature again?
This video shows you that the ground-based perspective is different from celestial perspective.
A simple demonstration of perspective
The sun CAN set on a flat surface
It’s ALL Perspective
Perspective science for dummies
