bird's-eye view

view of an object from above
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bird's-eye view

Summary

bird's-eye view is a cinematic technique[1]. It draws 132 Wikipedia views per month (cinematic_technique category, ranking #15 of 39).[2]

Key Facts

  • bird's-eye view's image is recorded as PM 122995 B Ename.jpg[3].
  • bird's-eye view's instance of is recorded as cinematic technique[4].
  • bird's-eye view's subclass of is recorded as perspective[5].
  • bird's-eye view's subclass of is recorded as high-angle shot[6].
  • bird's-eye view's Commons category is recorded as Bird's-eye view[7].
  • bird's-eye view's opposite of is recorded as worm's-eye view[8].
  • bird's-eye view's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08863x[9].
  • bird's-eye view's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300015529[10].
  • bird's-eye view's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300072984[11].
  • bird's-eye view's Iconclass notation is recorded as 48C14251[12].
  • bird's-eye view's used by is recorded as architectural drawing[13].
  • bird's-eye view's different from is recorded as high-angle shot[14].
  • bird's-eye view's different from is recorded as aerial photography[15].
  • bird's-eye view's different from is recorded as bird's-eye view[16].
  • bird's-eye view's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as vogelperspektive[17].
  • bird's-eye view's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 39959148[18].
  • bird's-eye view's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/16[19].
  • bird's-eye view's Grove Art Online ID is recorded as T008965[20].
  • bird's-eye view's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 68426[21].
  • bird's-eye view's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as bird-s-eye-view[22].
  • bird's-eye view's IATE entry ID is recorded as 1248726[23].
  • bird's-eye view's Oxford Reference overview ID is recorded as 20110803095507916[24].
  • bird's-eye view's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as rxps2jhh[25].
  • bird's-eye view's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/81a2a994-7007-4a0e-9f14-8bbee9f288ea[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for bird's-eye view include it[27], a video game perspective[28].

Why It Matters

bird's-eye view draws 132 Wikipedia views per month (cinematic_technique category, ranking #15 of 39).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for it include it[27], a video game perspective[28].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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