Vision and Depiction

Vision and Depiction

Seeing, processing and understanding images

  • Human visual system
    • Visual grammar: size, shape, colour, texture
    • Contrast processing, edge & pattern detection
    • Retinal image processing
    • Optical nerve coding
  • Vision as information processing
    • Higher-level invariants, position, depth, orientation, motion
    • Visual cues and creative seeing
    • Optical illusions
  • Vision as cognitive process
    • Structure, symmetry, proximity, closure, completion, grouping
    • Holistic and gestalt psychology
    • Best-fit algorithm, Occam’s razor
  • Reading images
    • Focus and attention
    • Path of movement, selective focus
    • Gaze movement analysis

Assignment

Digital collage

Digital collage

Mac OSXMS WindowsLinuxGIMP JavaMarvinEditor MS WindowsPhotoFiltre (with Plugins & Add-ons)

 

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