3 The Human Visual System

This episode is about the human visual system and how it perceives and interacts with electronic images. We briefly touch on three topics: what we can’t see, the electronic display as our canvas and what we can see.

 

Slides (pdf): The Human Visual System

Films (streaming):

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Vimeo (no adverts)	The Human Visual System
YouTube (sub titles)	The Human Visual System
Bilibili (in China)	The Human Visual System

 

Supplementary material:

The Monkey Business Illusion by Daniel Simons: Short Film

The Ames window, the hollow crate and hollow head illusions by Richard Gregory: Short Film

Knowledge in perception and illusion paper by Richard Gregory: Academic paper