Thursday, October 30, 2014

6.) binocular cues

your sense of depth perception relies strongly on both eyes working together to find the range or depth of a stimulus in you visual field.  the lenses in both your eyes work similarly to certain range finders used in hunting or war. these range finders rely on two lenses picking up two slightly different images, then extracting distance information from them. these two lenses working together are known as convergence.

5.) figure-ground perception

Figure-ground perception can be described as the tendency of the visual system to simplify the scene into a figure that we are looking at, and everything else into the ground which forms the background. For example the picture above is composed of black and white space. You should be able to pick out two separate images but only one at a time. The black space displays an image of a hand. The white space displays the highlighted features of a persons face, which is looking down.

2.) law of continuity

 the law of continuity is implied in this picture because, even though there aren't two lines intersecting our brain connects the dots to make two separate lines.  in fact this picture has no lines at all we just perceive the dots as being two intersecting lines continuing on.  the law of continuity states that we have a preference towards perceptions of connected and continuous figures as opposed to disconnected and disjointed ones.