section_path: Arts, games, and cognitive sciences
section_name: Arts, games, and cognitive sciences
paragraph_text: Arts, games, and cognitive sciences
  
  Perspective artwork uses the concept of vanishing points, roughly corresponding to mathematical points at infinity, located at an infinite distance from the observer. This allows artists to create paintings that realistically render space, distances, and forms. Artist M.C. Escher is specifically known for employing the concept of infinity in his work in this and other ways.
  
  Variations of chess played on an unbounded board are called infinite chess.
  
  Cognitive scientist George Lakoff considers the concept of infinity in mathematics and the sciences as a metaphor. This perspective is based on the basic metaphor of infinity (BMI), defined as the ever-increasing sequence <1,2, 3,...>.