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Photography has redefined the nature of time and motion with continuous recording techniques, by which images are constantly registered from a continuously changing vantage point. Here traditional perspective is restated, vanishing points become straight lines, and the photograph is not made from any discrete place or at any specific time.

The techniques of peripheral photography permit the circumference of a cylindrical subject to be rendered as though spread out; and the nonperspective orthographic Camera can produce images with no vanishing point, in which uniformly sized subjects at different distances all appear as one size. The use of fiber-optic scanners permits the recording of images traveling from remote or inaccessible sites, even through a complex path.

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