Vanishing point of multipoint perspective, and historian Kirsti Andersen compiled these observations. She notes, in terms of projective geometry, the vanishing point is the image of the point at infinity associated with , as the sightline from through the vanishing point is parallel to . As a vanishing point originates in a line, so a vanishing line originates in a plane that is not parallel to the picture . Given the eye point , and the plane parallel to and lying on , then the vanishing line of is . For example, when is the ground plane and is the horizon plane,
Parallel (geometry) do not intersect. Equivalently, they are parallel if and only if the distance from a point "P" on line "m" to the nearest point in plane "q" is independent of the location of "P" on line "m". Similar to the fact that parallel lines must be located in the same plane, parallel planes must be situated in the same three-dimensional space and contain no point in common. Two distinct planes "q" and "r" are parallel if and only if the distance from a point "P" in plane "q" to the nearest point in plane "r" is independent of the location