foreshortening

visual effect or optical illusion that causes an object or distance to appear shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer
Event optical_illusion Q1866630
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foreshortening

Summary

foreshortening is an optical illusion[1]. foreshortening draws 25 Wikipedia views per month (optical_illusion category, ranking #27 of 37).[2]

Key Facts

  • foreshortening's image is recorded as Perspective-foreshortening.svg[3].
  • foreshortening's instance of is recorded as optical illusion[4].
  • foreshortening's instance of is recorded as perspective[5].
  • foreshortening's subclass of is recorded as perception[6].
  • foreshortening's Commons category is recorded as Foreshortening[7].
  • foreshortening's has cause is recorded as graphical projection[8].
  • foreshortening's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[9].
  • foreshortening's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • foreshortening's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/foreshortening[11].
  • foreshortening's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1229kn14[12].
  • foreshortening's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as raccourci-peinture[13].

Why It Matters

foreshortening draws 25 Wikipedia views per month (optical_illusion category, ranking #27 of 37).[2] foreshortening has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). foreshortening. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/foreshortening
MLA “foreshortening.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/foreshortening.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_foreshortening_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{foreshortening}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/foreshortening}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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