Perception Project

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Closure: The brain automatically makes assumptions about images that sometimes aren't true. 

For example, this picture, our brains make us thing that there is a 3-D
cube but in reality, its just a combination of lines that we perceive as a cube. 



Continuity: Our brain takes short cuts to make things
easier for itself while processing vision.

For example, in this picture, it shows the color to show the distinction of what's really going on but without color, we would perceive this as two intersecting lines.






Similarity: Refers to the psychological nearness or proximity of two mental representations.

For example, in this picture









Proximity: The brain assumes that multiple items that are next to each other are in a group, because the brain loves shortcuts.

For example, this picture illustrates that these different squares, circles, and diamonds are grouped together but in reality, they could just be in close proximity of each other.









Figure-Ground perception: Type of perspective that is crucial for identifying objects and it lets the body differentiate between main objects and less defined background objects.

For example, this picture shows how our brain can process either the goblet or the two faces, the white is more defines and attention catching so usually you'd see the goblet and the the longer you look at the picture, you would notice the faces.







Perception of motion: 
Motion is perceived when two different retinal pathways, which rely on specific features and luminance, converge together.

This picture shows how placement of colors can effect how your mind perceives the image, the way that the white portion of the circles makes you perceive movement.










Phi Phenomenon: Where there's a consecutive set of still images that are strung together to give the illusion that there's movement.

This image is a pefect example of that, it looks like the green part is moving around the circle but in reality its just a series of still pictures.










Reversable Figures: These are images that can be perceived multiple ways, (much like the goblet/ face image above) and depending upon your perspective, you may see different things.

You may see either a bald man or a mouse depending your perspective and this an example of a reversible figure.







Linear perspective something that helps the brain determine depth and distance of an object.

For example: this picture shows how our brains are easily tricked into seeing the wrong thing,because the lines in the picture are actually the same.






Relative height: Objects higher in our field of vision are perceived as farther away; causes the illusion that taller objects are longer than shorter objects.

This picture shows how monocular cues deceive us, the monsters are actually the same size, but it obviously doesn't look that way.








Relative size: Our minds are easily tricked by monocular cues, and by using the objects around the object the brain determines the size of the subject

But in this picture the orange circles are the same size but the size of the surrounding blue circles makes the brain think otherwise.










*Picture describes definition*

*This picture also explains itself*







Texture gradient: is the distortion in size which closer objects have compared to objects farther away. It also involves groups of objects appearing denser as they move farther away. Also could be explained by noticing a certain amount of detail depending on how close something is, giving a sense of depth perception. (Wiki)

The picture shows how the textures in the background compares to immediate texture and makes the man appear much smaller in the front.








Convergence: based on the fact that in order to project images on the retinas, the two eyes must rotate inward toward each other. The closer the perceived object is, the more they must rotate.


This picture shows how the eyes have to rotate to focus on things that are closer to your body and it lowers your line of sight.







Relative Motion: As we move, objects that are stationary appear to move, the closer the object, the faster it appears to move

This picture shows how if you fixate your eyes upon a certain point, it looks like everything else is moving very fast.







Interposition; If one object partially blocks the view of another, we perceive it as closer

This picture shows how interposition makes the red triangle looks smaller than the green one, but in reality they're the same size.





Retinal Disparity: By comparing images from each eye, the brain computes distance; the greater the difference between two images the closer the object

This picture shows how your brain processes both eyes but sometimes two different perspectives, an example is shown in the image 


Shape Consistency: Perceived shape can appear as staying consistent when angle is changes

This picture shows how even though the door opens, the brain still recognizes the square shape of the doorway







Size Consistency: Perceive objects as having constant size even as distance changes

This picture shows how easily our brains are tricked into thinking that an object's size is changing but in reality, the size is not at all.







Brightness Consistency: Our brains are often tricked into perceiving color as two different shades (or sometimes different colors altogether)

This picture shows that with different contrasting colors, the brain perceives the mans shirt as two different colors.








In the illusion, the longer you stair at the white cross at the center, the more faces you will see distorted, but the pictures aren't actually being changed, your brain just cannot process









While staring at the black dot in the center of the image, our brain is decoding the color of the image, so when it changed to black and white, our brains cannot figure out whats going on so it creates a fake scene, much like a cartoon character running on air before falling off of a cliff.








This illusion makes you really have to look and think twice about what you are seeing, the lines on the floor make it seem like there are craters in the floor but it is just how the white lines are positioned.