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Planes

Planes

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Planes

Ben: We've found a lot of interesting things in the hallway. There is this cool peeling paint. There is stuff on the floor. There is a dead bat. There is also a lot of really cool geometry. We've got these receding lines that are creating this nice perspective, and here we have got this PVC pipe that's creating a line right across the hallway, and that works well against that window there with the big cross in it. But we have got something else here. We have got an electrical problem happening. We've got this wire coming across the hallway here. Now, it may be obvious to you as you have seen me walk forward here, but this wire and that piece of PVC pipe are at different distances from the camera. They sit on different planes. They're in different layers. And because they're at different distances from camera, they can be mixed and matched and combined in different ways depending on how the camera moves around, and you can see that happening right now. As the camera is moving, you're…

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