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I have a 4-sided plane in a perspective view. Each side is equal in length to the side across from it. Given the length of two sides and the fore-shortened length of one side, how can we solve for the other two sides?

Assume the bottom side is not fore-shortened in this example.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/63EWq.png

Additional information: http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZyNwo.png

TOP

Length: 2CM, Fore-shortened: 1 CM

LEFT

Length: ?

RIGHT

Length: ?

BOTTOM

Length: 2CM

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    Very interesting problem. I am not sure if it is lack of information. But the answer for the left and right length must be way much longer than the top and bottom according to the fore-shortened length of the top.2012-04-23

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The far side must be twice as far from you as the front side. If it is not far away, you can make right triangles at your eye to the centers of the sides and the corners of the rectangle. If the half length of the side is $L$the near side is distance $d_1$ from your eye, you have $\frac L{d_1}=\tan \theta_1$ and the far side is $d_2$ from your eye then $\frac {L}{d_2}=\tan \theta_2$ and $\tan \theta_1=2\tan \theta_2$. Therefore $\frac {d_2}{d_1}=\frac{\tan \theta_1}{\tan \theta_2}=2$

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Triangle and Trigonometry. The perspective is a projection of the real 3D over a glass in front of your eye. What you see on the 2D glass is exactly what you see on your drawing above in 2D. The actual calculation uses angular size of the closer horizontal line, but for that, you need to know the distance between your eye to this line. Lets assume this Distance (D) is 5cm. A = CloserHorizontalLine. B = FarHorizontalLine. A Angular size = AAS = 2*arctan(size/2*distance). AAS on glass =2*arctan(2/10)=22.6°. BAS (on glass) = 2*arctan(1/10)=11.4°. Now, from the left side of the A to the left side of the B on glass, is 0.5cm, Half of difference A to B (HDAB). Now we have a rectangle triangle made by this HDAB a 90° line to the back of real rectangle (C) and the hypotenuse we don't care about, but it makes a 11.4°/2 with the C. Now it is easy to calculate C = HDAB/tan(BAS/2) = 0.5/tan(11.4/2) = 5. To make a formula of it, it will be C = ((A-B)/2)/arctan(tan(B/2D)), eliminating arctan and tan, it results in C=(A-B)*2 / B/2D = C=(A-B)*2D/2B = C=(A-B)*D/B. If A=2 B=1 D=5, C=5, If A=3 B= D=5, C=10. I may be wrong.