top view

Looking straight down

A top view is the perspective of looking directly down at something from above, as if viewing it from the ceiling or sky.

In technical drawing and architecture, it shows the horizontal layout of a structure or object: The top view reveals how the rooms connect.

Also called a plan view or bird's-eye view.

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floor plan · looking down · drone · drone footage · helicopter shot · satellite · map · floorplan · layout · schematic · rooftop · canopy · zenith · survey · flat · diagram · silhouette · outline

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vertical viewing angle

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worm's eye view · side view · profile view · elevation · front view

projection plane orientation

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Perspective from below

isometric view · perspective view

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