Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:05:10 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: gah.  Annoyances in deed.
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:
> On 4/18/2011 7:52 PM, mark wrote:
>
>> I think you missed the idea: google for coffee table model train layout.
>> The idea is that it's under the glass of a coffee table, *and* the plan
>> was to sell it in a con art show.
>>
>> Under the glass of a coffee table is *not* gonna work with this. We're
>> talking not more than, I dunno, 5" or 6".
>
> The key words are, "Forced perspective"...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_perspective

Yeah, well, another friend said "abandon scale", to which my response
was "abandon scale, all ye who enter"....

mark

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