Vanishing Points

Where parallel lines meet

An interactive lesson with 6 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Each family of parallel lines converges to its own vanishing point.
• Horizontal lines vanish on the horizon, at eye level.
• A vanishing point is the image of a point at infinity.

Steps

1. Rails that meet
2. Where is the vanishing point?
3. Looking up at a skyscraper
4. Find the horizon
5. Lines with no vanishing point
6. Eye level