Graphical projection Perspective projection is a linear projection where three dimensional objects are projected on a "picture plane". This has the effect that distant objects appear smaller than nearer objects. It also means that lines which are parallel in nature (that is, meet at the point at infinity) appear to intersect in the projected image, for example if railways are pictured with perspective projection, they appear to converge towards a single point, called vanishing point. Photographic lenses and the human eye work in the same way, therefore perspective projection looks most realistic. Perspective projection is usually categorized into "one-point", "two-point" and "three-point
Parallel Lines make "Parallel Lines" an extremely popular album in the United Kingdom, where it was a number-one hit and charted for 106 weeks during the late 1970s. "Q" magazine called the album "a crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds, terrific hooks and middle-eights more memorable than some groups' choruses." In a retrospective appraisal of 1970s post-punk albums, "Spin" magazine's Sasha Frere-Jones said "Parallel Lines" may have been "the perfect pop-rock record" and Blondie's best album. Christian John Wikane from "PopMatters" later called it "a creative and commercial masterpiece by Blondie ... indisputably one of the great, classic albums of the rock