Perspective (graphical) towards the opposite vanishing point. Two-point perspective exists when the painting plate is parallel to a Cartesian scene in one axis (usually the z-axis) but not to the other two axes. If the scene being viewed consists solely of a cylinder sitting on a horizontal plane, no difference exists in the image of the cylinder between a one-point and two-point perspective. Two-point perspective has one set of lines parallel to the picture plane and two sets oblique to it. Parallel lines oblique to the picture plane converge to a vanishing point, which means that this set-up will require two vanishing
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