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* "Math is a language, and can be used to lie just like any other language." | * "Math is a language, and can be used to lie just like any other language." | ||
* [[Curved visual space|"We see in hyperbolic geometry, not Euclidean."]]<ref>https://youtu.be/T7Ge9wW58Lk?t=5m0s</ref> | * [[Curved visual space|"We see in hyperbolic geometry, not Euclidean."]]<ref>https://youtu.be/T7Ge9wW58Lk?t=5m0s</ref> | ||
* ''... and many similar piles of nonsense.'' | * ''... and many similar piles of nonsense.'' See [[Full List of Flerfspective Excuses]] | ||
For this reason, the "flerfspective" concept is a rich source of [[ | For this reason, the "flerfspective" concept is a rich source of [[word salad]]. | ||
== Gallery of Flerf Memes== | == Gallery of Flerf Memes== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:Bottom Up explained1.jpg | File:Bottom Up explained1.jpg|Eye Angular Size limit | ||
File:Bottom Up explained2.jpg | File:Bottom Up explained2.jpg|Vanishing point before the vanishing point | ||
File:Bottom Up explained3.jpg | File:Bottom Up explained3.jpg|Lines of sight - nothing blocked | ||
File:Laws of Reflections.jpg|Laws of Reflections | File:Laws of Reflections.jpg|Laws of Reflections | ||
File:Why cant you see the sun at night.jpg|Why cant you see the sun at night | File:Why cant you see the sun at night.jpg|Why cant you see the sun at night | ||
File:Tall building bottom up.jpg|Diagram shows why bottom cant be hidden on FE | |||
File:FB IMG 1788351171914 flerfspective.jpg|Why are the objects drawn at different sizes in a side on view | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Latest revision as of 06:39, 18 October 2026
Flerfspective is a term for the butchered mess that flerfs make out of linear perspective when using it to explain:
- sunset
- hull down ships
- star elevation angles
- why we can't see China from directly over America
- a variety of other phenomena
Flerfs that realise the painfully obvious flaws with using flerfspective to explain the above phenomena will sometimes resort to flerfraction.
Vanishing Point Issue
A key misunderstanding is that flerfs think the vanishing point lies at a finite distance from the observer, when it's actually infinite.
The elevation angle of Rowbotham's sun would decrease as it moves away horizontally, but an elevation of 0° is the infinitesimal limit of this series.
In other words: the sun could recede horizontally forever, but could still never actually reach 0° elevation.
Without this limit, a flat and level floor beneath an observer would be able to block his line of sight to an object that's above him, which is patently absurd.
Rhetoric
Despite extravagant, ongoing efforts among globers to explain the above issue, to date apparently no flerf has ever comprehended it (except ex-flerfs).
When confronted on it, flerfs generally become chaos gremlins and rebut with statements like:
- "The atmosphere magnifies things."[1]
- "Using an orthographic diagram to explain perspective is a category error."[2]
- "Math is a language, and can be used to lie just like any other language."
- "We see in hyperbolic geometry, not Euclidean."[3]
- ... and many similar piles of nonsense. See Full List of Flerfspective Excuses
For this reason, the "flerfspective" concept is a rich source of word salad.
Gallery of Flerf Memes
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Eye Angular Size limit -
Vanishing point before the vanishing point -
Lines of sight - nothing blocked -
Laws of Reflections -
Why cant you see the sun at night -
Diagram shows why bottom cant be hidden on FE -
Why are the objects drawn at different sizes in a side on view
