Oblique projection

Oblique projection is a way of drawing things in three dimensions on a flat piece of paper, so we can better understand what they look like. Imagine you have a toy car that you love to play with. When you sit across from it, you can see both the front and the side of the car at the same time, right?

Now imagine that you take a picture of the car from that angle, so that you can draw it on paper. But if you try to draw it as it appears in the photo, it will be hard to tell which side is which because it looks so flat. So instead, we use oblique projection.

To do this, we imagine that the car is tilted a little bit so that we can see one side more clearly. We draw that side as if it is facing us directly, and we draw the other side smaller and at an angle. This way, we can see both sides of the car, but it still looks like a three-dimensional object.

Think of it like taking a slice out of a cake: you can see the top, the sides, and the inside all at once. When we use oblique projection, we're kind of slicing the object so that we can see all of its sides on the flat paper.

So, that's what oblique projection is: a way of drawing objects that makes them look more 3D, by tilting them slightly so that we can see more than one side at a time.