One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category relates to whether a perspective point is in motion or not. This interacts with distance, where 'distal' tends to correlate with 'stationary' and 'proximal' with 'moving'. If the perspective point is stationary, it is in 'synoptic mode'. If the perspective point is moving, it is in 'sequential mode'. This is illustrated by the following examples:

1. Max had seen some houses (synoptic) through the car window
2. Max kept seeing houses through (sequential) the car window The example in (1) invokes the perspective of a fixed vantage point. In contrast, (2) invokes a motion perspective, as a result of which the houses are seen one or some at a time.