Lighting, backlighting and watercolor illusions and the laws of figurality

Spatial Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 341-373

  Pinna, Baingio ^a   Reeves, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color spreading; Figure ground segregation; Gestalt principle of grouping; Light; Watercolor illusion

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR VISION; GROUND EFFECT; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

CHROMATIC COLOR; COLOR SPREADING; FIGURE-GROUND SEGREGATION; GESTALT PRINCIPLE OF GROUPING; LAWS OF FIGURALITY; WATERCOLOR ILLUSION;

LIGHTING;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ILLUSION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33745602469     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856806776923434     Document Type: Article

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