Awareness of the light field: the case of deformation
Human observers group local shading patterns into global super-patterns that appear to be illuminated in some unitary fashion. Many years ago, this was noticed for the case of uniform, unidirectional illumination. Recently, we found that it also applies to convergent and divergent illumination flows...
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author | van Doorn, Andrea J. Koenderink, Jan J. Todd, James T. Wagemans, Johan |
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description | Human observers group local shading patterns into global super-patterns that appear to be illuminated in some unitary fashion. Many years ago, this was noticed for the case of uniform, unidirectional illumination. Recently, we found that it also applies to convergent and divergent illumination flows, but that human observers are blind to rotational light flow patterns (in the sense of being unable to group the local shading patterns). We now report that human observers are also blind to deformation patterns. This is perhaps interesting because convergent, divergent, rotational, and deformation patterns all occur in natural light fields. This is an idiosyncrasy of the human visual system, on par with the fact that visual awareness fails to present the observer with saddle shapes. |
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spelling | pubmed-34858352012-11-09 Awareness of the light field: the case of deformation van Doorn, Andrea J. Koenderink, Jan J. Todd, James T. Wagemans, Johan Iperception Article Human observers group local shading patterns into global super-patterns that appear to be illuminated in some unitary fashion. Many years ago, this was noticed for the case of uniform, unidirectional illumination. Recently, we found that it also applies to convergent and divergent illumination flows, but that human observers are blind to rotational light flow patterns (in the sense of being unable to group the local shading patterns). We now report that human observers are also blind to deformation patterns. This is perhaps interesting because convergent, divergent, rotational, and deformation patterns all occur in natural light fields. This is an idiosyncrasy of the human visual system, on par with the fact that visual awareness fails to present the observer with saddle shapes. Pion 2012-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3485835/ /pubmed/23145298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0504 Text en Copyright © 2012 A J van Doorn, J J Koenderink, J T Todd, J Wagemans http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This open-access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Licence, which permits noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction, provided the original author(s) and source are credited and no alterations are made. |
spellingShingle | Article van Doorn, Andrea J. Koenderink, Jan J. Todd, James T. Wagemans, Johan Awareness of the light field: the case of deformation |
title | Awareness of the light field: the case of deformation |
title_full | Awareness of the light field: the case of deformation |
title_fullStr | Awareness of the light field: the case of deformation |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness of the light field: the case of deformation |
title_short | Awareness of the light field: the case of deformation |
title_sort | awareness of the light field: the case of deformation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0504 |
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