Scientists Uncover Why Picture Perception Works; University of California at Berkeley, Rochester Institute of Technology Release New Findings on Visual Perception.

AScribe Health News Service, September, 2005

Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists has solved a key mystery of visual perception. Why do pictures look the same when viewed from different angles?

When you look at a picture, there is only one viewing position - the picture's center of projection - that yields a correct image at your eye. For example, there's but one place in the movie theater where the film creates the same image at your eye as the original scene. Viewing from other places causes distortion of the image at your eye. Why, then, don't moviegoers rush to the correct position? Indeed, do they even know where that position is?

Martin S. Banks, Professor of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of...

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