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In a motion perspective
experiment, observers viewing
moving shadows of paint
droplets on a screen were able
to perceive that the plane was
slanted.
Eleanor and James Gibson
and their associates performed
experiments that at least
partially bear out his
contention. In one experiment,
they spattered paint on a
transparent sheet and, as can
be seen in the animation
shown here, slanted the sheet
away from the vertical plane. A
small light was used to cast
shadows of the paint droplets
on a translucent vertical
screen in front of the
transparent sheet. When the
sheet was moved back and
forth, the shadows of the
droplets moved back and forth
over the screen. Because of the
slant of the sheet, a gradient of
motion velocity was created
from the bottom to the top of
the screen, with the shadows
at the top of the screen moving
more rapidly than those at the
bottom. The investigators
reasoned that, since the screen
was actually vertical and flat,
subjects looking at the moving
shadows of the droplets on the
screen would be able to
perceive the slant of the sheet
correctly only if motion
perspective is a source of depth
information.