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Fukinuki — the ladder

2 distinct arguments against one idea, from the one that introduces it to the one that assumes the rest.
  1. parallel, 52° above the ground56% · 56% · 56%one eye, 14.5 m away49% · 56% · 49%a square metre of floor varies 1.000× against 1.535×spread across rooms: 0 against 6.2 points

    What the removed roof buys

    The Japanese convention of drawing an interior with its roof lifted off is usually explained as a way of seeing inside. What it actually buys is uniformity — every room reports the same share of its floor, to the last sample, where the eye that frames the same building reports three different numbers.

    rung 1 · conventions
  2. parallel, 52° above the ground56% · 56% · 56%one eye, 14.5 m away49% · 56% · 49%a square metre of floor varies 1.000× against 1.535×spread across rooms: 0 against 6.2 points

    Measuring a room off the page

    A perspective picture of a floor has to be rectified before anything on it can be measured, and the rectification is a fit that amplifies the marking error. An oblique picture of the same floor is already rectified — the page is the plan, at one scale, and a ruler on the paper is a ruler on the ground.

    rung 2 · conventions

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