This is about perspective.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) – Cite This Source per·spec·tive [per-spek-tiv] –noun
- a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- a picture employing this technique, esp. one in which it is prominent: an architect’s perspective of a house.
- a visible scene, esp. one extending to a distance; vista: a perspective on the main axis of an estate.
- the state of existing in space before the eye: The elevations look all right, but the building’s composition is a failure in perspective.
- the state of one’s ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship: You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.
- the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship: Your data is admirably detailed but it lacks perspective.
- a mental view or prospect: the dismal perspective of terminally ill patients.
- -adjective: of or pertaining to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws.
…More on my definition later.
