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+Title: Vanishing Point
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+Author: C.C. Beck
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+Illustrator: Martinez
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+Release Date: December 15, 2007 [EBook #23868]
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+Language: English
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+                            [Illustration]
+
+                               VANISHING
+                                 POINT
+
+                             BY C. C. BECK
+
+           _In perspective, theoretically the vanishing
+           point is at infinity, and therefore unattainable.
+           But reality is different; vanishment occurs a lot
+           sooner than theory suggests ..._
+
+                         Illustrated by Martinez
+
+
+That? Oh, that's a perspective machine. Well, not exactly, but that's
+what I call it. No, I don't know how it works. Too complicated for me.
+Carter could make it go, but after he made it he never used it. Too bad;
+he thought he'd make a lot of money with it there for awhile, while he
+was working it out. Almost had me convinced, but I told him, "Get it to
+working first, Carter, and then show me what you can do with it better
+than I can do without it. I'm doing pretty well as is ... pictures
+selling good, even if I do make 'em all by guesswork, as you call it."
+That's what I told him.
+
+Y'see, Carter was one a them artists that think they can work everything
+out by formulas and stuff. Me, I just paint things as I see 'em. Never
+worry about perspective and all that kinda mechanical aids. Never even
+went to Art School. But I do all right. Carter, now, was a different
+sorta artist. Well, he wasn't really an artist--more of a draftsman.
+
+I first got him in to help me with a series of real estate paintings I'd
+got an order for. Big aerial views of land developments, and drawings of
+buildings, roads and causeways, that kinda stuff. Was a little too much
+for me to handle alone, 'cause I never studied that kinda things, ya
+know. I thought he'd do the mechanical drawings, which shoulda been
+simple for anybody trained that way, and I'd throw in the colors,
+figures and trees and so on. He did fine. Job came out good; client was
+real happy. We made a pretty good amount on the job, enough to keep us
+for a coupla months without working afterwards. I took it easy, fishing
+and so on, but Carter stayed here in the studio working on his own
+stuff. I let him keep an eye on things for me around the place, and just
+dropped in now and then to check up.
+
+The guy was nuts on the subject of perspective. I thought he knew all
+there was to know about it already, but he claimed _nobody_ knew
+anything about it, really. Said he'd been studying it for years, and the
+more he learned about it the more there was to learn. He used to cover
+big sheets of paper with complicated diagrams trying to prove something
+or other to himself. I'd come into the studio and find him with thumb
+tacks and strings and stuff all over the place. He'd get big long rulers
+and draw lines to various points all over the room, and end up with a
+little drawing of a cube about an inch square that anybody coulda made
+in a half a minute without all the apparatus. Seemed pretty silly to me.
+
+Then he brought in some books on mathematics and physics and other
+things, and a bunch of slide rules, calculators, and junk. He musta been
+a pretty smart guy to know how to handle all those things, even if he
+was kinda dopey about other things. You know ... women and fishing and
+sports and drinking; he was lousy at everything except working those
+perspective problems. Personally, I couldn't see much sense to what he
+was doing. The guy could draw all right already, so I asked him what
+more did he want? Lemme see if I can remember what he said.
+
+"I'm trying to get at things as they really are, not as they appear," he
+said. I think those were his words. "Art is an illusion, a bag of
+tricks. Reality is something else, not what we _think_ it is. Drawings
+are two-dimensional projections of a world that is not merely three- but
+four-dimensional, if not more," he said.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Yeh, kind of a crackpot, Carter was. Just on that one subject, though;
+nice enough guy otherwise. Here, look at some of the drawings he made,
+working out his formulas. Nice designs, huh? Might make good wall paper
+or fabric patterns. Real abstract ... that's what people seem to like.
+See all those little letters scattered around among the lines? Different
+kinds of vanishing points, they are. Carter claimed the whole world was
+full of vanishing points. You don't know what a vanishing point is?
+Lemme see if I can explain. Come over to the window here.
+
+Ya see how that road out there gets smaller and smaller in the distance?
+Of course the road doesn't really get smaller--it just looks that way.
+That's what we call a vanishing point in drawing. Simple, isn't it?
+Never could understand why Carter went to so much trouble working out
+all those ways to locate vanishing points. Me, I just throw 'em in
+wherever I need 'em. But Carter claimed that was wrong. Said they were
+all connected together some way, and he was gonna work out a method to
+prove it.
+
+Here ... here's a little gadget he made up to help his calculations.
+Bunch of disks all pivoted together at the center; you're supposed to
+turn 'em around so the arrows point to the different figures and things.
+Here's the square root sign, I remember Carter telling me that. This one
+is the Tangent Function, whatever that means. Log, there, is short for
+logarithm. Oh, he had a bunch of that scientific stuff in his head all
+the time; dunno whether he understood it all himself. He built this
+thing just before he put together the perspective machine there.
+
+Silly-looking gadget, huh? All them pipes and wires and that little cube
+in the center ... don't try to touch it, it ain't really there. You just
+think it is. It's what Carter called a teteract, or a cataract ... no,
+that ain't the right word. Somepin' like that--tesser something or
+other. There's a picture like it in one of Carter's books. Hurts your
+eyes to look at it, don't it?
+
+That's what Carter thought was going to make him a lot of fame and
+money, that perspective machine. I told him nobody'd ever made a drawing
+machine yet that worked, but he said it wasn't supposed to make
+drawings. It was just supposed to give people a view of what reality
+really is, instead of what they think it is. I dunno whether he expected
+to charge money to look through it, or whether he was gonna look through
+it himself and make some new kinda drawings and sell 'em.
+
+No, I can't tell you how it works--I said before I don't know. Carter
+only used it once himself. I came in here the day he finished it, just
+as he was ready to turn it on. He was just putting the finishing touches
+on it.
+
+"In a few minutes," he told me, "I'll have the answer to a question that
+may never have been answered before: what is reality? Is the world a
+thing by itself, and all we know illusion? Why do things grow smaller
+the farther away from us they appear? Why can't we see more than one
+side of anything at a time? What happens to the far side of an object;
+does it cease to exist just because we can't see it? Are objects not
+present nonexistent? Because artists draw things vanishing to points,
+does that mean that they really vanish?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A wack, that's what he was. Nice guy, but sorta screwy. He kept saying
+more goofy things while he was finishing up the machine, about how he'd
+figured out that all we knew about vision and drawing and so on must be
+wrong, and that once he got a look at the real world he'd prove it.
+
+"How about cameras?" I asked him. "Take a picture with a camera and it
+looks just about the same as a drawing, don't it?"
+
+"That's because cameras are built to take pictures like we're used to
+seeing them," he said. "Flat, two-dimensional slices of reality, without
+depth or motion."
+
+"Even 3-D moving pictures?" I asked.
+
+"They're closer to reality," he admitted. "But they are still only cross
+sections of it. The shutter of a movie camera is closed as much of the
+time as it is open. What happens in between the times it's open?
+
+"You know," he went on, "people used to think matter and motion were
+continuous, but scientists have proved that they are discontinuous. Now
+some of them think time may be, too. Maybe everything is just imaginary,
+and appears to our senses in whatever way we want it to appear. We are
+so well-trained that we see everything just as we are taught to see it
+by generations of artists, writers, and other symbol-makers. If we could
+see things as they really are, what might happen?"
+
+"We'd probably all go nuts!" I told him. He just smiled.
+
+"Well, here goes," he said. "It's finished. Now to find out who is
+right, the scientists and philosophers who say reality is forever
+unreachable, or the artists who say there isn't any reality--that we
+make the whole thing up to suit ourselves."
+
+He moved one of those pointers you see there, and squinted around at the
+different scales and dials, and then stepped back. That little
+tessy-thing appeared, real small at first. Just a point; you could
+hardly see it. I couldn't see anything else happening, and thought he
+was gonna do somepin' else to the machine. I turned to look at Carter,
+and saw his face was white as a sheet.
+
+"Good Gawd!" he says, just like that: "Good Gawd!" That's all.
+
+"Well," I says to him, "who was right, the scientists or the artists?"
+
+"The artists!" he sorta screeches. "The artists were right all the time
+... there _is_ no reality! It's all a fabric of illusion we've created
+ourselves! And now I've ripped a hole in that!"
+
+He gives a strangled hoot and goes hightailin' outta here like somepin'
+was after him. Jumps in his car and roars off down the road and
+disappears.
+
+Naw, I don't mean he really disappeared--are you nuts? Just roared on
+down the road till he got so small I couldn't see him no more. You
+know--the way things do when they go farther and farther away. Happens
+every day; that's what us artists mean by perspective.
+
+The machine? Well, I dunno what to do with it. If Carter ever comes back
+he might not like my getting rid of it. I was thinking mebbe I'd put it
+in the hobby show at the county fair next week, though. Ya notice how
+that funny-looking cube inside there gets bigger every time you look at
+it? There ... it just doubled its size again, see? People at the fair
+oughtta get a big kick outta that. No telling how big it'll get with all
+those people looking at it.
+
+But come on, let's go fishing. We'd better hurry or it'll be too late.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Astounding Science Fiction_ July 1959.
+    Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
+    copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
+    typographical errors have been corrected without note. Informal
+    spellings have been retained.
+
+
+
+
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