PSYC 369 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Depth Perception, Renaissance Art, Retina
19 Oct 2015
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Ex: when an object is covering another object, the object that is covered is farther away than the object covering it: this situation is call occlusion: When an object is moved from arm"s length to closer to your nose there is more tension in your eyes. Monocular cues: monocular cues work with using only one eye, these cues include accommodation , pictorial cues, and movement-based cues. Pictorial cues: which are sources of depth information in a 2-d picture, movement cues, source of depth information created by movement. Pictorial cues: looking at a picture and using occlusion, looking at a picture and using relative height. The height in photos correspond to the height in our field of view and objects that are higher are usually farther away. According to the cue of relative height, objects with their bases closer to the horizon are usually seen as more distant.
