Chap. IV.

PERSPECTIVE. 815
thereon can only be transferred throughout the direction of that plane. Thus the helj;lit
of the roof IL was transferred by the line LZ along that plane to its other extremity x
;
but the line rs is not the jilace of the ridge of the roof wliicli lies in the middle of the
l)lane (//ti/im, jiroceeding from the jjoint k ; but any height on the angular line pr is easily
transferred along that i)lane by means of its horizontal vanishing jjoint V, by which means
the height of the roof was obtained by the line rV at k. If, instead of the plane over the
line AD (No. 4.) being produced for an intersection, the plane of the middle of the house
in the direction of tiie ridge of the roof had been drawn, and the height of the roof had
been set uj) on that line, it would at one application he transferred to its jjrojjer jjlace.
'2417. Let the line VE (No. 4.) be produced to P for an intersection, set off the distance
OP at OP (No. 5.),
and draw the intersecting line PR. On PR set up the height of the
ridge of the roof equal XD (No. 1.), and d)aw the ridge line RZ, and it determines the
exact ridge of the roof between the proper visual lines, and will be found to correspond
exactly with the ridge obtained by the former process.
2418. The roof may, iiowever, be found by another process, thus:The slant lines of the
roof have their vanishing points on the picture as well as any other direction of lines in the
same object. The line km (No. 5.)
being in the vertical plane yliihm, will have its vanish-
ing points somewhere in the vanishing line of that jilane. (l)ef 15.) A vertical line
drawn through the horizontal vanishing point V will he the vanishing line of the plane
(/hikm; therefore the vani^hing point of the lines km, hi, and of all lines parallel to them,
will be somewhere in the vertical GVXQ.
2419. Two lines drawn from the eye jjarallel to any two lines in an object, finding their
vanishing points, will make the same angle at the eye as the lines in the object make with
each other ; for the two lir.es in the one instance are respectively parallel to the two lines
in the other.
2420. The line SQ is drawn from the station S parallel to the line AB (No. 4.),
.and a
line drawn from the station S, making the same angle with SQ as ED does with EC,
(No. 1.),
will find the vanishing point of the line ED, and this point must be evidently
somewhere in a vertical line through the point Q,. 'i'o obtain this point in practice, take
the distance of the vanishing line it is in, that is, the length from S to Q
in the comi)asses,
and set off the same in the horizon (No. 5.) from V. to W. .At the point V\' make an angle
VWX equal to the inclination of the roof, that is, et^ual to the angle CED (No. 1.),
and