frog's-eye view

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Etymology

By contrast to a bird's-eye view.

Noun

frog's-eye view (plural frog's-eye views)

  1. A point of view from the ground or from within a system.
    • 1995, Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision, →ISBN, page 91:
      Not only the accustomed frontal and profile-views but also the view from above, the bird's-eye view, and that from below, the frog's- eye view, were recorded.
    • 2008, Aron Vinegar, I Am a Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas, →ISBN, page 57:
      This contrast between the expressionism of Crawford Manor and the deliberate damming of expression in Guild House is “dramatized” by the strikingly different photographic perspectives of the two exteriors: a frog's-eye view of the undulating, striated, and chiaroscuro-lit blconies of the "soaring tower" is juxtaposed with a "deadpan" view of the tightly cropped, shadowless facade of Guild House (figure 3.4).
    • 2010, Kurt Pritzl, Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence, →ISBN, page 248:
      Flat on the ground, the specialized inquirer has a frog's-eye view (BGE, 2/10).

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