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Gibson emphasized that
the texture of a plane that
yields motion perspective
provides richer, more
naturalistic information than
do laboratory environments
that consist of such artificial
elements as one or more spots
floating in space. Wallach
noted that in kinetic depth
displays, in contrast to simple
examples of motion parallax,
not only do points within the
object shift in direction as the
object moves but the contours
of the object simultaneously
change in orientation and
length. He believes it is this
coupling of length change and
orientation change that is
crucial to the perception of
depth generated by motion.
Other factors may
influence the effectiveness of
motion as a depth cue. For
example, in the kinetic depth
effect the stimulus is a
connected object. Stanley
Anton demonstrated in our
laboratory that when only the
ends of the rotating rod are
visible, as separate spots, the
depth effect does not occur. The
amount of depth separation may
also influence the
effectiveness of motion as a
depth cue. In the case of
stereopsis, when the disparity
is too great, one typically sees
double images of the non-
fixated contour rather than
one contour farther or nearer
than the fixated one. If this
rule holds for motion parallax,
it may explain the impressive
sense of depth achieved by
motion of a band within a
random dot pattern in the
experiment Rogers and Graham
conducted. The actual depth
simulated in that experiment
was far less than that employed
in the experiment on luminous
circles described earlier. Still
another factor may be whether
it is the display or the observer
that is moving. For ideal
conditions such as in the
Rogers and Graham experiment
or in a kinetic depth display,
object movement suffices, but
for poorer conditions such as in
the luminous circles
experiment, only movement of
the observer may yield a depth
effect. When the observer
moves, information is available
that the changing retinal
image is not necessarily the
result of object motion.