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Beck + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Vanishing Point + +Author: C.C. Beck + +Illustrator: Martinez + +Release Date: December 15, 2007 [EBook #23868] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VANISHING POINT *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/001.png" width="600" height="396" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h1>VANISHING<br /> +POINT</h1> + +<h2>BY C. C. BECK</h2> + +<p class="tease">In perspective, theoretically the vanishing +point is at infinity, and therefore unattainable. +But reality is different; vanishment occurs a lot +sooner than theory suggests ...</p> + +<p class="illo">Illustrated by Martinez</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 45px;"> +<img src="images/002.png" width="45" height="45" alt="T" title="T" style="border: solid 1px;" /> +</div><p><span class="dcap">hat?</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The guy was nuts on the subject of +perspective. I thought he knew all +there was to know about it already, +but he claimed <i>nobody</i> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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 <i>think</i> it is. Drawings are two-dimensional +projections of a world +that is not merely three- but four-dimensional, +if not more," he said.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Even 3-D moving pictures?" I +asked.</p> + +<p>"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?</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>"We'd probably all go nuts!" I +told him. He just smiled.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Good Gawd!" he says, just like +that: "Good Gawd!" That's all.</p> + +<p>"Well," I says to him, "who was +right, the scientists or the artists?"</p> + +<p>"The artists!" he sorta screeches. +"The artists were right all the time +... there <i>is</i> no reality! It's all a fabric +of illusion we've created ourselves! +And now I've ripped a hole in +that!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>But come on, let's go fishing. We'd +better hurry or it'll be too late.</p> + +<p class="theend">THE END</p> + +<div class="trans1"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b><br /> +This etext was produced from <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i> 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.</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Vanishing Point, by C.C. 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Beck + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Vanishing Point + +Author: C.C. Beck + +Illustrator: Martinez + +Release Date: December 15, 2007 [EBook #23868] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VANISHING POINT *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + [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. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Vanishing Point, by C.C. 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