The Perspective Research Centre uses interactive navigation maps throughout the website to show how individual subjects connect with the wider structure of perspective. This index provides a central starting point for exploring those maps and moving between related categories, types, concepts, geometries, phenomena, images and applications.
Choose a subject area below and follow the links into the corresponding part of the network. On individual pages, the highlighted topic shows your present position while surrounding links allow you to move to broader, narrower or neighbouring subjects.
New to the maps? How to Use the Perspective Navigation Maps →
1. Foundations of Perspective
Begin with the overall subject, its definitions, theoretical foundations, processes and systems.
- Perspective Defined →
- What is Perspective? →
- Theory of Perspective →
- Perspective Process →
- Perspective System →
- Goals of Perspective →
- Functions of Perspective →
2. Categories, Types & Classification
Explore how perspective is divided into categories, classes, types and forms, and how different perspective processes can overlap, combine and operate in sequence.
- Perspective Category Theory →
- Types of Perspective →
- Types & Forms of Perspective →
- Classic Forms of Perspective →
- Perspective Theory & Concepts Index →
3. Perspective Geometry & Projection
Explore the geometrical relationships connecting spatial reality, viewpoint, projection, picture and image space.
- Perspective Geometry →
- Perspective Projection →
- Perspective Transformation →
- Primary & Secondary Geometry →
4. Vanishing, Horizons & Directional Reference
Follow the geometrical structures that relate spatial directions to viewpoints, vanishing points, horizons and directional reference systems.
5. Form, Space & Perspective Images
Explore the relationship between physical spatial reality and the images, views, spaces and transformed forms produced by perspective processes.
- Perspective Image / View →
- Perspective & 3-D Space →
- Image Space →
- Perspective Space →
- Optical Image Chain →
6. Natural, Optical & Visual Perspective
Follow the connected route from physical spatial reality and natural appearance through optical image formation to retinal and perceptual visual experience.
- Natural Perspective →
- Optical Perspective →
- Visual Perspective →
- Visual Perspective — Type 1 →
- Visual Perspective — Type 2 / Retinal →
Spatial reality → Natural Perspective → Optical Perspective → retinal image → Visual Perspective Type 2 → perceived visual space
7. Perspective Phenomena, Vision & Problems
Explore the visible effects produced by perspective and the fundamental problems involved in interpreting spatial reality from views and images.
- Perspective Phenomena →
- Perspective Phenomena — Types 1, 2 & 3 →
- Scale–Shape–Size Problem →
- Vision & Visual Perspective →
8. Functions & Applications of Perspective
Explore what perspective processes enable us to do and how perspective is used across art, science, technology and professional practice.
- Functions of Perspective →
- Goals of Perspective →
- Applications of Perspective →
- Applications of Perspective Index →
Other Ways to Explore Perspective
The navigation maps are designed to reveal relationships between subjects. For systematic searching and reference, you can also use the PRC’s other indexes, catalogues and databases.
- Perspective Theory & Concepts Index →
- Applications of Perspective Index →
- Types & Forms of Perspective →
- Perspective Research Centre Home →
The navigation maps turn the PRC website into an interconnected knowledge system: move upward to broader subjects, downward into specialised topics, or sideways across related concepts to explore the many dimensions of perspective.