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The compositional devices known as linear perspective are familiar to those who have studied Western art. In so many words, they are the principles guiding the compositional lines that allow for naturalistically scaled images in perspective. Over the centuries, this phenomenon has been referred to as perspective, linear perspective, one-point perspective, three-point perspective, centric perspective, aesthetic perspective, scientific perspective, geometric perspective, mathematical perspective and skenographia. The easiest way to capture and exhibit an image in linear perspective is with a photograph. Basic naturalistic images in perspective can also be recreated with most aesthetic mediums: drawing, oil painting or any technique for creating a motion picture. Now, a conventional description of an image in linear perspective will be followed with our analogous associations with a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system... Leonardo da Vinci's fresco, Last Supper, 1495-1498, is..