This webpage compliments the research work done exploring the way in which computer generated images can affect human visual perception. Since design is aimed at this target, the nuances involved in the process should be taken into account by anyone interested in computer aided design. This includes programmers who create graphical user interfaces as well as commercial or game graphic design.
Human perception has been toyed with through visual means for centuries but has never been challenged with such interesting methods as those possible with computer technologies now readily available. How the human eye and mind interprets an image is a fascinating subject, from the way depth is infered from shadows to exploiting an intentional human visual defect called the blind spot. Besides attempts to not only explain how computer generated images affect human visual perception biologically and how enhanced graphic design methods gives an image on a flat surface gives an illusion of depth and movement, but it further explains the nuances of images that trick the human perception into seeing something that in actuality false by finishing with detailed analysis of how specific methods manipulate the wonderfully complex organic computer; the human brain.
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The fact is, it is all in how you look at some things. And in others, it is how some things look to you. The inherent gain of two simultaneous views give humans an obvious advantage in depth, distance, size and other factors. The Blind-spot is an advantage, but it can be manipulated. Web pages are adopting methods to give a more visually appealing design with depth from shadowing and shading. Motion and other factors increase our perceptions as our brains do well by keeping up with all that is going on by automatically omitting the unimportant details and formulating instant analysis. And these perceptions are being manipulated by advancements in computer technologies to generate images that challenge these human visual perceptions. 3D Dot Stereograms are a great example. It's very interesting how we are affected by how we perceive the world. And how computer generated images have gone through a transformation and enhancement that not only gives depth and movement to web pages but also creates illusions that affect visual perception in surprising and amazing ways.