The difficulty adults find in drawing objects or scenes from real life is puzzling, assuming that
there are few gross individual differences in the phenomenology of visual scenes and in fine …

Drawing is a way to represent common-use objects. The contour of an object is a salient
feature that defines its identity. Preference for a contour (curved or angular) may depend on …

Little is known about how we perceive the size and shape of objects in far peripheral vision.
Observations made during an artistic study of visual space suggest that objects appear …

This paper reviews projection models and their perception in realistic pictures, and proposes
hypotheses for three-dimensional (3D) shape and space perception in pictures. In these …

Photography is often understood as an objective recording of light measurements, in
contrast with the subjective nature of painting. This article argues that photography entails …

Following its discovery in fifteenth-century Italy, linear perspective has often been hailed as
the most accurate method of projecting three-dimensional visual space onto a two …

Which is the most accurate way to depict space in our visual field? Linear perspective, a
form of geometrical perspective, has traditionally been regarded as the correct method of …

Slow looking is an increasingly prevalent strategy for enhancing visitor engagement in the
gallery, yet there is little research to show why looking at artworks for longer should be …

We are almost always visible to ourselves. Depending on how you are seated, reclining or
standing, you will see parts of your nose, legs, hands, arms, shoulders or trunk from your …

Despite its mathematical simplicity and ubiquity in imaging technology, there has long been
doubt about the ability of linear perspective to best represent human visual space, especially …