Axonometric projection ("to measure along axes") is a technique used in orthographic pictorials.Within
orthographic projection, axonometric projection shows an image of an object as viewed from a skew direction in order to reveal more than one side in the same picture, unlike other orthographic projections which show multiple views of the same object along different axes. Because with axonometric projections the scale of distant features is the same as for near features, such pictures will look distorted, as it is not how our eyes or photography work. Especially if the object to view is mostly composed of rectangular features, an axonometric view however is well suited for illustration purposes.
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