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Understanding the elements of two-dimensional design and the infinite options available in organizing choices made are at the core of this book.

In this introduction to modern vision science, the author uses visual illusions to explore how the brain sees the world. Understanding vision, he argues, is not simply a question of knowing which neurons respond to particular visual features, but also requires a computational theory of vision. He draws together results from David Marr's computational framework, Barlow's efficient coding hypothesis, Bayesian inference, Shannon's information theory,...

"This classic 1936 work in vision science, written by a leading figure in Germany's Gestalt movement in psychology and appearing in English for the first time, addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger's main argument, drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we perceive in visual experience are not the objects themselves but perceptual effigies of those objects constructed by our brain according...

This volume contains the edited proceedings of the first interdisciplinary symposium on pictorial processing, entitled 'What is a painting?', held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in April 1978, which brought together artists, psychologists and philosophers to exchange ideas about pictorial representation. The contributors examine the roles of perception and cognition in pictorial processing and present their ideas on theoretical issues raised by...

This book is concerned with the artist's experience in recording his visual world as an art form, exploring how the creative painter SEES. It is basically a beginner's book on how to paint realistically, but the book abounds with information valuable to artists of all levels of experience--Jacket.

In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of pictures that communicate hidden messages, either by implying something else, or by a shape or portrait which is carried covertly within another design. He analyses image processing stages...

Helps beginning designers think sculpturally by examining the elements of three-dimensional design and the use of simple planes and lines in geometric construction.