Psychological implications of the history of realistic depiction: Ancient Greece, renaissance Italy and CGI

Leonardo

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-144

  Kozbelt, Aaron ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 34547475836     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/leon.2006.39.2.139     Document Type: Article

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3. Ernst H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1960)
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10. Ernst H. Gombrich, New Light on Old Masters (London: Phaidon, 1986) p. 46
11. See Gombrich [3] for more on the "inverse" problem
12. Vincent J. Bruno, Form and Color in Greek Painting (New York: Norton, 1977) pp. 53-59
13. Cennino d'Andrea Cennini, The Craftsman's Handbook (Il libra dell'arte), Daniel V. Thompson, Jr., trans. (New York: Dover, 1954; based on the 15th-century original) pp. 42-50
14. David Luebke et al., Level of Detail for 3D Graphics (New York: Morgan Kaufmarm, 2003)
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20. see also Samuel. Y Edgcrton, Jr., The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1991)
21. Anthony Blunt, Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1940) pp. 32-33
22. For a visual summary, see Dave Morris and Leo Hartas, Game Art: The Graphic Art of Computer Games (New York: Watson-Guptill, 2003) pp. 8-13
23. David Marr, Vision (San Francisco: Freeman, 1982)
24. Compare geons illustrated in. Irving Biederman, "Recognition-by- Gomponents: A Theory of Human Image Understanding," Psychological Review 94 ( 1987) pp. 115-147
25. with building-block CGI primitives in Understanding Computers: Computer Images (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1986) p. 63
26. Patrick Gavanaugh and Yvan G. Leclerc, "Shape from Shadows," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 15 (1989) pp. 3-27
27. Dale J. Cohen, and Susan Bennett, "Why Can't Most People Draw What They See?," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 23 (1997) pp. 609-621
28. A. David Milner and Melvyn A. Goodale, The Visual Brain in Action (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995)
29. For an overview, see Vicki Bruce and Andy Young, In the Eye of the Beholder: The Science of Face Perception (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998)
30. For Renaissance manuals, see Ames-Lewis [15]
31. CGI manuals include Keith S. Reid-Green, Create Your Own Games Computers Play (Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1984)
32. David Kalwick, 3D Graphics: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques (New York: AP Professional, 1996)
33. Peter Ratner, 3-D Human Modeling and Animation, 2nd Ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003)
34. Paul Steed, Animating Real-Time Game Characters (Hingham, MA: Charles River Media, Inc., 2003)
35. Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Univ. Press, 1972)