Putting VIPERS in perspective. This plot shows the complementarity of the 0.5 <z< 1.5 regions probed by the two VIPERS deep fields, and the SDSS main and LRG samples at lower redshift (for which a 4-degree-think slice is shown). The LRG samples are excellent statistical probes on the largest scales, but (by design) they fail to register the details of the underlying nonlinear structure, which is clearly exposed by VIPERS.