A worm's-eye view is a description of the
view of a scene from below that a
worm
Worms are many different distantly related bilateria, bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limb (anatomy), limbs, and usually no eyes.
Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine ...
might have if it could see. It is the opposite of a
bird's-eye view
A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective (graphical), perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward. Bird's-eye views can be an aerial photog ...
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It can give the impression that an object is tall and strong while the viewer is childlike or powerless.
A worm's-eye view commonly uses
three-point perspective, with one
vanishing point
A vanishing point is a point (geometry), point on the projection plane, image plane of a graphical perspective, perspective rendering where the two-dimensional perspective projections of parallel (geometry), parallel lines in three-dimensional ...
on top, one on the left, and one on the right.
is another term used that is synonymous with worm's-eye view.
See also
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Bird's-eye view
A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective (graphical), perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward. Bird's-eye views can be an aerial photog ...
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Frog's-eye view
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Plan (drawing)
Plans are a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams used to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions. Usually plans are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file.
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References
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Methods of representation
Technical drawing
Cartography