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The Pictorial Cues
For hundreds (in some
instances, thousands) of years,
artists have been able to create
vivid impressions of depth on
two-dimensional surfaces by
using perspective, shading, and
other methods. If the pictorial
cues were only important in
looking at paintings or
photographs, they would of
course be of only limited
importance in understanding
depth perception in daily life.
But the pictorial cues do yield
significant information about
the relative, if not the
absolute, distances among
things that allows us to
perceive depth in the real
world. In fact, pictures can be
so realistic precisely because
artists have used the tricks of
pictorial cues in creating
images nearly identical to
those yielded by the actual
scene. Just how important
these factors must be was
evident in the thought
experiment described earlier. If
we view a scene with one eye
and head held stationary, it
will often appear almost as
vividly three-dimensional as
when we view it binocularly
and move about. Yet, as can now
be appreciated, in such an
experiment all but the pictorial
cues have been more or less
eliminated.
What, then, are these
pictorial cues that Leonardo
and many others before and
since have routinely used so
effectively in drawings and
paintings, and how do they
contribute to depth perception
in daily life? The cues fall into
several groupingsΓÇöΓÇô
interposition, shadow,
perspective, and familiar size.