Illusion of Space

In Mary Stewart's "Launching the Imagination", during the discussion of texture of space, Douglas Smith's No Turning shows how texture and linear perspective are combined to produce an illusion of space, showing a view looking down on a truck in an alleyway in which the truck is trapped. The effect is generated by having the bricks diminish in size in the image as the distance increased (p. 25). I love when this effect is used, and have seen it used to impressive effect. In Salt Lake City, Utah LDS Temple, this same illusion was used to make the building appear taller when viewed from the ground. Because we expect to see smaller detail as something gets farther away, the various levels of the 222-foot building's exterior were made with finer detail the higher up the building you go to make the building appear taller than it actually is.