The origins of entasis: Illusion, aesthetics or engineering?

Spatial Vision

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 531-543

  Thompson, Peter ^a   Papadopoulou, Georgia ^a   Vassiliou, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Entasis; Illusion

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PROBABILITY;

AESTHETICS; VISUAL ILLUSION;

VISION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ILLUSION;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESTHETICS; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 36749099907     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: 15685683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856807782758359     Document Type: Article

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