Trees that grow from seeds start out as tiny seedlings, usually growing directly under the parent tree--the tree that dropped its seeds. Often, those seedlings die because they are blocked from receiving sunlight and moisture. However, seedlings raised in nurseries usually do very well, depending on the species of tree.
Italian Renaissance painters and architects including Filippo Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli studied linear perspective, wrote treatises on it, and incorporated it into their artworks, thus contributing to the mathematics of art.
linear perspective - the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer. perspective. appearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thing. vanishing point - the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge.