The influence of Periscope in the interior architecture and landscape Design

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Faculty of fine arts, Alexanderia university

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This paper discusses the concept of the periscope, and how it was effective in making the surrounded landscape part of the interior design indirectly... First, what is the Periscope?
A periscope is an optical instrument that uses a system of prisms, lenses or mirrors to reflect images through a tube. Light from a distant object strikes the top mirror and is then reflected at an angle of 90 degrees down the periscope tube. At the bottom of the periscope, the light strikes another mirror and is then reflected into the viewer’s eye. This simple periscope uses only flat mirrors as compared to the periscopes used on submarines, which are usually a complex optical system using both lenses and mirrors.
The periscope was influential in many fields; it used in land and sea warfare, submarine navigation, and elsewhere to enable an observer to see his surroundings while remaining under cover, behind armors, or submerged.
How the architects, interior designer & landscape designers get use of physics to develop their work and bring the landscape of the outside in

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