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frog's-eye view en · NOUN

Etymology

By contrast to bird's-eye view.

Meanings

1. A point of view from the ground or from within a system.
   • 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 balconies of the "soaring tower" is juxtaposed with a "deadpan" view of the tightly cropped, shadowless facade of Guild House (figure 3.4). 2008, Aron Vinegar, I Am a Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas, →ISBN, page 57:
   • Flat on the ground, the specialized inquirer has a frog's-eye view (BGE, 2/10). 2010, Kurt Pritzl, Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence, →ISBN, page 248:
   • 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. 1995, Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision, →ISBN, page 91:

Forms

Synonyms

worm's-eye view

Translations (10)

nl kikvorsperspectief (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · es plano contrapicado (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · pl z żabiej perspektywy (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · sv grodperspektiv (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · de Froschperspektive (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · sh žablja perspektiva (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · nl kikkerperspectief (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · fr contreplongée (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · hu békaperspektíva (point of view from the ground or from within a system) · fr contre-plongée (point of view from the ground or from within a system)