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One of the principles that
André Le Nôtre used in designing

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these gardens is one
called animorphosis,

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which is a geometrical
distortion principle that

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allows things to shift in
scale and look from a certain

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perspective, extremely distorted
and meaningful and then from

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a different perspective
sort of snap into it.

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And the best example of this,
for those of you know it,

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is Hans Holbein's painting
of the ambassadors

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with that weird strange blob at
the bottom, which if you stand

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against the wall and
look at it like this

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snaps into being a skull.

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So animorphosis was
used for centuries

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for hiding visual messages.

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Le Nôtre used it to create a
situation where from a certain

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perspective, which was always
stepping out the back door

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of the Great Hall, the
garden would look perfectly

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proportioned as a painting.

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And so it was meant to
actually have a two dimensional

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life at that perspective and
because many of his guests

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never went into the garden.

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But then if you did.

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It became a completely
different experience.

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It became huge
compared to what you

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saw so you had the
experience that going out

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into it paid off in some way.

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Animorphosys.

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According to angle and
alignment, the garden owns it,

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and the eye gardens
down the eye sliding.

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The observer is a precise spot
that a human sometimes enters.

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A garden is always seen
from an extreme angle.

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This is because we're
not very tall compared

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to the world, which runs
out in breadth way ahead

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of the vertiginous.

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Thousands will remain, and even
neck to neck will this align.

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Stand here.

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See that distant distance?

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Stand there.

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There's a way to compute
the angle of incidence,

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says Euclid's Eighth Theorem.

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To real in the world, we need
a single viewer said the view.

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Who?

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Said the person who never
left the back door, who

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is still standing there
in the door frame.

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I see a world so
precisely distorted

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that I sit on the
terrace sipping champagne

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with a friend, and as the
lights come on the painting

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grows within the trees
and is the trees.

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And if all of this fits within.

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Le Nôtre used animorphosis
to make the world come home.

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Sad, cataract, in a music box,
there is no animal that cannot

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learn.