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The Orthographic & Perspective/Objective Realism & Subjective Idealism.

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Reality, as we perceive it, is a tapestry woven with the threads of our own subjectivity.   A year ago, while 3D modeling, I stumbled upon a question that shook the foundation of my understanding of reality: how can our subjective, perceptually dependent reality — which we view through perspective viewports — exist independently of an objective one, the orthographic viewport? This question, left unanswered, sparked an existential crisis that lasted over a year. The aforementioned has led to this revelation (the article you're about to read). The orthographic  viewport : From the 3D perspective, the orthographic viewport projects a 2D capture of the object in which all parallel lines remain parallel. The orthographic is independent of perception; the image does not depend on the distance between the viewer and the object, nor does it depend on the focal length.  From my perspective, which isn't very different, the orthographic viewport is one in which objects exist in their orig